Dictature - Consultant AspenTech Employee Review

2.0
Oct 9, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Point solutions are ok. Good customers and many interesting customer engagements.

Cons

Poor management. In fact, like a dictature. The mode is management by terror and fear. The meddle management at the VP level is often worse with a constant behavior of obedience and bossy attitude with employees, while being yes men with upper levels. Impossible to suggest any change, the CEO is always right. If you raise the hand, they barely listen and always do nothing, waiting for the decisions to come from above. Initiative spirit is discouraged, eliminated, destroyed. The company is dying in stupid complex processes that require job positions to be created only for control and over control purposes. To justify their jobs, they tend to conceive new crazy processes every day. The system is kafkaian, totally blocked and paralyzing. The token model is financial oriented and turns the sales force into sales administrative clerks. No value based selling approach, the culture is teckies, features and function. Sales never talk to C-level, they only deal with technicians. Internal communication does not exist or just like boring propaganda. Product offering is a mess and too many disconnected point solutions.

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