AspenTech Reviews

Pros

great people
great engineering products
flexible work environment

Cons

lack of leadership
no real product development
unclear rewards

Advice to Senior Management

invest in new products
reward performance

Pros

work with the best in the industry, great place to learn and contribute, company experience is valued in industry at large.

Cons

inadequate cultivation and valuation of technical talent. overemphasis on sales. inadequate outreach to customers who should be made partners in the development process.

Advice to Senior Management

recognize that services go hand in hand with products. great services will make even mediocre products sell much better and yield valuable product improvement ideas. services and support teams need to be valued more than they have been historically at this company.

Pros

Great Products and large pool of customers globally.

Cons

Management needs to be open to Employees and understand how to take care of Employees first.

Pros

Great product, good co-workers and lot to learn.

Cons

Bad bad bad management and HR, upper management and HR never cares about employee, as an employee you will never be asked about your feedback.

Advice to Senior Management

think about the big picture rather than penny pinching ideas and killing competition. Please pay attention in product quality, with every release its getting worse and worse so there is big area of concern.

Pros

Best products in a stagnant industry

Cons

Cash Cow, management is milking the company for bonuses and stock options

Advice to Senior Management

Sell company

Pros

Decent salary
Great people (not management)
Not much else unfortunately, I had to think long and hard but could not come up with any other pros

Cons

Management does not care about the employees and it shows
Run top down with fear
As a employee you have no say in anything
Atrocious middle management
No opportunities for career advancement
High turn over (all the good employees leave)

Advice to Senior Management

Great job righting the ship in finance
Everything else (products, strategy, human resources, customer engagement) needs some serious attention
Take a look at how Directors in the company and how qualified they are to manage

Pros

THere are excellent products and excellent people

Cons

RUn top down exclusivly by a culture of fear. No information is absorbed upwards. Do as I said it is the rule of the day.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees and after 10 years introduce some new prodcuts. Also - keep your word on rewarding achievements and stop taking credit for sales when teh salesman can have a negative effect on his income for closing deals.

Pros

Great product and great coworkers.

Cons

no advancement opportunity, bad management, crazy internal processes, no recognition, constantly seeking ways to pay employees less.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a grip of reality and DO SOMETHING!!

Pros

Very dynamic and challenging in a great industry.

Cons

Turnaround culture still permeates the place which makes it difficult to strive for the normalcy of a good business without the baggage of the turnaround.

Advice to Senior Management

Challenge the grown ups in the room to see what we will come up with.

Pros

Location, salary and health benefits. Many nice people working there.

Cons

Negative atmosphere; lead by fear and intimidation. Chaotic internal processes; Red tape is endless. Expectation is to acquiesce to superfluous demands on a daily basis. No autonomy. Myopic in their business plans. Blind obedience is expected. No empathy for unexpected family matters. Paranoia is rampant in the high echelons of management.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat the human resources as such - humanely. Use respect and positive feedback to promote loyalty and increased productivity. The employees are the reason the company is a success. All employees have a contribution and are part of the team. There is a common goal of success regardless of the position you hold. Also a note to the egomaniacal managers that unfortunately have influence: meanness is not strength and don’t confuse your intelligence with wisdom.