ANSYS Reviews

Current Employee – been working at ANSYS full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – All I have learned in my field (thermal fluids, numerical methods and programming skills) is utilized as I solve the technical problems for clients day in and day out. Excellent collegiate work environment in which I can learn from my colleagues.

Cons – Promotion process is substantially slower than the industry's average.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ANSYS full-time

Pros – Hires International Students. Work culture is awesome.

Cons – Technical Written test was tough

Current Employee – been working at ANSYS full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Work Satisfactions, varieties of projects, experienced colleague

Cons – Avg salaries, too many managers, stagnant career after some level

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Good to work and nice environment

Cons – Low Salary . . slower growth other issues..

Advice to Senior Management – Nothing. . .

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

Current Employee – been working at ANSYS as an intern for less than a year

Pros – good learning experience on software development

Cons – Located in south of Pittsburgh in Canonsburg

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ANSYS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Real world opportunities, good division between technical & non-technical aspects of s/w, descent research freedom, accessible senior management, work is valued with respect and pay

Cons – Restricted research freedom, lack of transparancy in some decisions & strategies, lack of integration with different groups.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide clear, unified and simple long term vision that motivate & instill pride in employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ANSYS

Pros – Ansys offers cutting edge technology and excellent benefits. They are by far one of the best technology companies in the Pittsburgh area.

Cons – Some middle management do not have the proper training that they should to do their jobs properly. Upper management should send them for training.

Advice to Senior Management – Send middle management to leadership and management training classes. Some have been promoted from the inside (which is excellent), but they lack the skills that they could easily be taught.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ANSYS

Pros – In the initial stages of your career it is a good environment where you are exposed to different technologies and industries, can learn much about different simulation tools.

Cons – Especially after the 2009 layoffs there has been a top-heavy structure: many managers from a legacy organization with very little restraint imposed on their personal management styles and ambitions. A lot of work is expected from engineers and quite often not appreciated or recognized. Unreasonable requests are put on employees when office doors are closed. Many political games driven by personal ambition and personal preferences are being played. Rather than focusing on growing as a company, several managers are worried about their visibility and undermining other managers' positions. There is some sort of an intimidating atmosphere depending who your boss is so that you do not feel to express honest concerns. As a matter of fact, there is not even an HR person in the Lebanon office!

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management could be more active and in contact with engineers. HR too could perform a survey and see if/how/why employees are not satisfied. It would help to the company long-term growth and soundness to remove some over-ambitious managers who make a lot of smoke using a lot of the company resources for self-promotion. Career counseling would help too.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ANSYS

Pros – Better employee relations, good managers to help you in Professional growth and good feedback. Better flexibility with timings and good work environment

Cons – Salary may be low according to market. Growth can be slow in your career. Work is not much in latest technologies

Advice to Senior Management – Make changes to the pay structure and implement cutting technologies into the projects so that employees can have better scope

Former Employee – worked at ANSYS

Pros – - Good benefits
- Strong business model

Cons – - No customer focus
- Senior management focus is ONLY Profits - increase top line or cut costs until bottom line improves.
- No interest in innovation at all except for lip service.

Advice to Senior Management – Time to stop buying companies at 8X revenues and come up with some "real" in-house innovation at a much lower cost - and I don't mean e-notebook!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend