ANSYS Reviews

Pros

I worked at their Lebanon office, formally the Fluent headquarter, where is a very safe and quiet place. The company is a big fish in a small river, and they have been doing pretty good even in the sluggish economy.

Cons

The culture is not as good as it was before the acquisition. After laying off in about 2008, quite a few employees left.

Advice to Senior Management

I do not have anything to say to the management team, but I hope company will keep moving forward to the success.

Pros

Although sometimes stressful and challenging, a very rewarding experience. As a co-op there, I found that knowing Ansys is very helpful in many other areas of engineering.

Cons

I could see how it might be possible for growth within the company to be stunted, not for lack of talent from individuals but from necessity to have them stay in their current capacity.

Pros

Flexible working style
Nice colleagues and managers
Good variety of problems in simulations
Opportunity to go in depth in physics

Cons

Inexperienced managers
Not enough soft skill training
Difficult to access journals
Too much stress on marketing and less on technology development

Advice to Senior Management

Improve the HR of the company. HR should do more than recruiting

Pros

Exposure to vast variety of technology, Ability to work on any interesting topic, sector, endless possibility to enrich engineering skills

Cons

Low salary ranges, neutral attitude of senior managers towards technology leaders, don't get a feeling that senior managers value the performing employees, too closely held company, very little freedom to mid-level managers, no leaders at the mid-level managers

Advice to Senior Management

Build leadership culture in the organization, have some more faith in mid-level managers, set-up a strong technology center for future growth of the company

Pros

Be able to get to work with nice EDA softwares with a large range applications from a variety of customers.

Cons

Frustrating to support the IT issues by a Electrical Design Engineering background and have to deal with less benefits compared to previous employers.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward the talent and experience appropriately otherwise it would be tough to keep talented and smart engineers around on a lower pay.

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.

Pros

1. Opportunity to work with intellectuals.
2. flexible timings.
3. personal benefits
4. good work culture.
5. Good product development

Cons

1. compensation package, other things not sure

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.

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

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!