Dassault Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Dassault full-time for more than a year

Pros – Most of the management team is knowledgeable about the products and are technically competent. Technical skills are valued and there are opportunites to grow.

Cons – With growth there is the challenge of integrating new people and companies. They are still working on integrating the different teams and getting the expanding product line integrated.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to work on how to fully integrate remote workers and geographically dispersed teams.

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

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

Pros – The company has an interesting and ambitious vision.
A lot of very smart people working all over the company.
The company is growing, acquiring new companies and technologies.

Cons – Higher management is erratic. High level of pressure at all levels.
Very little organic growth (hard to get new hires where needed)

Advice to Senior Management – Listen more to your employees, and make sure to keep your senior employees happy (they are key to your success in delivering class-leading products)

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

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

Pros – - Great Products
- Great Customers
- Progressive Attitude and Atmosphere
- Well funded, managed, and controlled.

Cons – - U.S. opportunity ceiling seems 'capped' at the border.
- Communication between vision and execution is poor and untimely.
- Management and execution processes is ignored by all above the "trenches".

Advice to Senior Management – Establish a execution process and schedule you are willing to follow. It will go a long way to communicating obtainable expectations, reducing unnecessary stress, and improving productivity.

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

Current Employee – been working at Dassault

Pros – Very good benefits. Very good work environment. Work/life balance. Local HR team very helpful
Technology we are creating and working with is really cool
Consistent double digit growth in the last 10 years

Cons – Salary is low compared to market
Working together with France HQ can be very challenging

Advice to Senior Management – Share the wealth

Yes, I would 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

Current Employee – been working at Dassault

Pros – Very much visionary company with strong market leadership

Cons – French culture and complex non-transparent operations

Advice to Senior Management – to be more global and strait-forward with ALL operations

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Dassault

Pros – Dassault has a great benefits package and is a very well run company from financial standpoint. Willing to invest and develop next generation technologies

Cons – Dassault Systemes by it's very nature is a very large organization with many different divisions. If you are used to working in a smaller organization that is very quick to move, you may face a few challenges

Advice to Senior Management – na