Avoid at all cost - Anonymous employee AspenTech Employee Review

1.0
Aug 5, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Job stability (during pandemic, there was very little laid off). However, this is probably due to high turnaround in the company. Can't really laid off people if they don't have enough people to start with.

Cons

Low base pay, low raise, and hard to get full bonus. They don't really care about employee happiness. If people leave, they'll hire more people in offshore sites (that cost less). Work wise, always being pushed to follow the existing standard and refuse to accept change. There's a lot of initiative to make the company more diverse but it's all talk. The career structure is a very long ladder (many high up only manage 1 person). Way too many SVPs and C-suite people being hired. No innovation and constantly buying smaller companies that doesn't make profit.

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Cons

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Pros

Good products with large customer base. Product development is innovative and willing to work directly with customers. Base pay for sales reps is improving after the acquisition by Emerson Electric. The Emerson Electric acquisition is received positively by the customers. Internal training is good and readily available. Collaboration between the various departments is excellent.

Cons

New management is focused on running the sales organization by spreadsheet metrics vs. obtaining and improving customer relationships. Product pricing and sales approval processes are very complex. Customers are seen as captives and when they request reasonable changes to their contract, they are often denied if there is not significant revenue growth (results in bad relationships). Sales management is spending more time in internal meetings than with customers and their reps.

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