Bentley Systems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Bentley Systems

Pros – Family atmosphere
Great client base to work with in the CADD industry

Cons – Lots of growing pains as they become larger
Very reactive to economic conditions
Need to better assimilate in acquisitions

Advice to Senior Management – Effort could be made at shifting people around to build better career paths. Don't be so reactive to the economy.

Former Employee – worked at Bentley Systems

Pros – Flexible Hours with work at home hours as well
Decent benefits & compensation
Opportunities for advancement if you look out for it
Good working atmosphere

Cons – Communication issues sub par
Benefits good but can be better
In office procedures are sometimes weird - like acquiring items for business purposes

Advice to Senior Management – Need better planning sometimes during project management
Ask all your employees for opinions for organizational improvment and cater to their business needs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bentley Systems

Pros – The company culture has a strong emphasis on making the employees feel secure in their jobs. Additionally, the atmosphere is more helpful than cutthroat.
On the technical side, some projects (but not all) are interesting to work on and involve new technologies.

Cons – The salaries are not very good compared to similar companies. Additionally, there are not many possibilities for career advancement given the low ratio of managers to engineers.
On the technical side, a lot of the software base is quite old and needs to be maintained, which is not as interesting as developing new features.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to have a better planning approach as the timelines for product development and release never seem to conform to the reality.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bentley Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – MNC
Good Managemnt
Product Driven Companyood Product lines
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Cons – Not Much. Growth is bit slow. Too many verticals.

Advice to Senior Management – nothing

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bentley Systems

Pros – - CAD software dev. experience.
- Reasonable benefits.

Cons – - Zero career planning for employees.
- Favoritism.
- Employees not exposed to new areas or recommended for better positions.
- Segregation / marginalization.
- Confused management keeps changing policies and structure.

Advice to Senior Management – Stay focused. Work on employee career progression. Take employee annual self-evaluations and career plans seriously, especially senior employees who don't see any sign of achieving their goals. Recommend employees for better positions instead of relegating them to just one role for the entire duration of their employment. Crack down on favoritism and employee segregation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bentley Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great family company to work for, family culture is great, employees come first, great products, helpful bunch of colleagues.... All around a great experience indeed!

Cons – Territorial management and vertical sales/management doesn't work in an emerging country/market.africa is a different ball game to mature markets like US, EU and needs to be managed accordingly.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to local work force in new markets/continents, being a TE who visits once in while to shop doesn't make you SME on market,conditions etc.

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

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

Pros – Very good working culture in the company.

Cons – Confirmation of intern totally depends on the performance.

Former Employee – worked at Bentley Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – nice work culture, supportive seniors

Cons – not much to understand for freshers about management

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

Former Employee – worked at Bentley Systems

Pros – Smart & passionate people to work with and around
Great software
Good benefits

Cons – Executive Management will not make a decision.
Middle management heavy
no career progression
Not open to new ideas

Advice to Senior Management – Be brave. Be fearless.
Not everything can be measured by metrics

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Amazing array of solutions and future plans.
Makes the competition look like a child's toy.

Cons – Too male dominated. Too many men in their 50's vesting quietly.

Advice to Senior Management – Shake it up. Clean house.

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