Dassault Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Dassault

Pros – You can work there and surf the web all day but who wants to do that?

Cons – First of all, they sell vaporware. Their product was a joke. They can show some great powerpoint slides about how it should work. Entitlement mentality was rampant in employees a lot of who are ex IBMers.

Advice to Senior Management – Management lives in an Ivory tower and was totally out of touch with what was going on in the company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Dassault full-time

Pros – Beautiful new Boston HQ
Great People
Great Benefits
Relaxed Atmosphere
Open door policy with most executives

Cons – TERRIBLE, UNSUPPORTIVE HR STAFF

Compensation varies across the brands - the guy sitting next to you doing the same job will earn significantly more because he is part of a different legal entity.

Awful compensation for the Boston area....negotiate strong up front because no matter how far up the ladder you go, HR will not support a bump in compensation.

Many of the SolidWorks people think they are better than the rest of the organization.

Advice to Senior Management – Start paying your US employees appropriately.
Watch what the HR business partners are doing, they should not be running the show.
Tell the SolidWorks people in the US to stop crying (or leave) it is destroying the culture/morale.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dassault

Pros – Deal with a lot of industry leaders. Travel a lot

Cons – Poorly supported by R&D especially the ones in Europe

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Dassault

Pros – Chance to learn CAD/CAM/CAE if you are interested in. Got some training in this domain.

Cons – If you work there more than 4 years, you don't have chance to find job in other IT domain, for few skill you learned can be transferred.

Advice to Senior Management – If the company don't make a technology evolution, there won't be a single license to be sold in near future. There are tons of new emerged company which adopt newest platform will share 3D market

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dassault full-time

Pros – Great employees
Great products
Place in market/industry favorable

Cons – Communication poor
Employee recognition poor
Career development and training poor
Trust in management low

Advice to Senior Management – Realize your greatest asset is your employees and take better care of them. You hired them for their expertise, let them use it and stop holding them back. Pay better attention within management teams, there are some very incompetent people in some very critical positions.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Dassault full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work environments, colleagues, fitness center

Cons – Salary, old or private technologies

Advice to Senior Management – CHallenges your employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Dassault

Pros – nice area of work for now

Cons – very Bad salaries... Major attrition

Current Employee – been working at Dassault

Pros – The vision is great, it is on paper at least a global company, the products are cutting edge. Footprint is there in all the traditional industries, Dassault is present in all the major accounts of these traditional industries. Benefits are good, at least in head quarters in France. Travel is business class for trips over 4 hours, it is a wealthy company and it shows. Once you have a position, you can do pretty much what you want to do (at least as middle management level and above). With the right position, you get to travel all over the world and do a pretty interesting job. If you like technology, it is a good place to be.

Cons – There is absolutely no career management whatsoever. That is unless you are somehow related to someone at the right level at Dassault Aviation, Dassault Systemes or a major client. Since the company is after all not that big, it seriously limits the number of available positions. Culture is difficult to assimilate, and it is rare to have people hired with a good background (say at least 15 years experience) staying more than two years. Benefits are good in France but standard elsewhere, pay is below market. Company reorganizes each year, which does not give one the time to grow in a given position and prove their value. Also, it is easy to be out of favor and disappear in the crowd, examples abound.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your people, the number of disgruntled employees is rising all the time. Establish some kind of career management for everyone: since the vision is there with a multiyear plan and an idea of where we should be in xx years, you should be able to derive what we need in xx years in terms of skills and talents. Instead of hiring at the VP level all the time! You have great people inside, make them grow and believe again in the Company. Then you will find that we'll improve dramatically, create better products and sell them more.
And read "The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't", then realize that there are many people fairly high up who kiss up and kick down. Get rid of them or (preferably) coach or retrain them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend