Extremely toxic hierarchical management structure - Senior Quality Engineer AspenTech Employee Review

1.0
Feb 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

not applicable... its very situational how you will function at aspen. You can either land in a good team with good coworkers willing to help you or you can go into teams that are highly political and do not care for anyone's growth but their own

Cons

- no flexibility with a very "my way or the highway mentality" for most if not all managers - no care or disregard for employee feedback - slowed process response due to multiple channels of communications causing confusion - overworked and burned out employees as everything is deemed as priority and needs to be addressed urgently - lack of transparency and horrible communication (relevant with the recent news with Emerson) - no career growth and laughable raises - inconsistent enforcement of company policies subject to each manager - lack of customer care or interest when planning features and implementation - lack of fundamentals and structural architecture ignoring advices / warnings from developers who work on the code base increasing tech debt

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5.0
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Pros

Well run company with smart people.

Cons

At the lower end of salary bands

3.0
May 18, 2026
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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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