Mission: Our mission is to ensure that software applications, which today’s business depends on, always deliver operational impact and the expected business results.
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Working at AppDynamics means making an impact on everyone’s daily lives. Our Application Intelligence Platform helps today’s software-defined businesses proactively monitor, manage, and optimize the most complex software environments. All in real time, and all in production. We believe that every time you click into an app, we’re there to make sure you have the fastest transaction experience possible.
Hop on the ride! If you’re someone who loves the thrill of a fast-paced work environment, but also knows how to kick back and relax with co-workers – then you’re in luck because we’re growing, fast. Check out our opportunities at offices around the world. If you think you’re up to the challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
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 | Great Company.We're a fast-growing company, and people love working here. It's exciting to work somewhere that you make a difference every day. |
Great People.At AppDynamics you’ll get to work with some of the leading talents in the application space from top-notch schools like Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, UIUC, MIT, Stanford, Waterloo and more. |  |
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AppDynamics is headquartered in San Francisco and is expanding globally. Founded in 2008 and led by proven innovators, AppDynamics has rock solid funding from top tier venture capital firms including: Greylock, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, IVP, Battery Ventures, ClearBridge, and Sands Capital.
At AppDynamics we believe in openness. Our leadership is friendly and approachable — we'd say we have an open door policy, but, well, we don't actually have doors.
Today’s consumer-driven world moves faster than ever. Everything from your customer experience to revenue depends on how your software apps perform. AppDynamics delivers real-time access to every aspect of your business and operational performance, so you can anticipate problems, resolve them automatically, and make smarter, more certain business decisions. Application Intelligence provides the business and operational insights into application performance, user experience and business impact of your software applications.
So at every point in time, you can know more and know it faster. It’s more than monitoring—it’s true Application Intelligence. If you join us (and we hope you will), you’ll be involved in everyday innovation, working on products that affect millions of people – from the ops teams that are in charge of the applications to the people that use them.
Hackathon, June 2016
91 percent of our employees say they would recommend their friends to work at AppDynamics! Our startup within a startup model arises from core values that encourage everyone to innovate, create and explore. We commit to an open, transparent, and constructive culture where everyone can work together. As we power forward, we look to bring on people who share our values that guide the way we work:
Customer Centricity
Disruptive Innovation
Collaboration and Transparency
Intellectual Honesty
Getting (the Right) Stuff Done
Winning with Integrity
The award-winning culture at AppDynamics is definitely something to brag about, but there are more reasons that will make you excited to get out of bed and come into work!
We are a brand new state of the art office in downtown San Francisco, centrally located near BART, Caltrain, Muni, ferry service, and a bike share station, plus we also offer pre-tax commuter benefits!
We deliver a comprehensive benefits package that includes many extras to set us apart from other employers. We listen to employee suggestions and go above and beyond to help our employees balance their personal and professional lives.
Competitive salary, 401(k) plan, and equity to employees.
We offer 100% paid for benefits, including medical, dental, vision care, and life insurance for you and your family. We also have our Choose Your Benefit Program which offers a monthly allowance of $65 USD to use towards a personal enrichment benefit of choice such as gym membership or classes. Or if you prefer, we have weekly run club, meditation, and yoga club!
Take the necessary down time you need to stay productive. On top of our 10 national holidays, we have a flexible vacation policy and there’s also the option to work from home. As an in office pick me up, we’ve got on-site massage therapists at your service!
We provide weekly catered breakfast and lunch, plus all the snacks, fruits and drinks to your heart’s desire at all of our offices.
We’ll set you up with new Apple equipment and whatever else you need to be productive. We also offer discounted cell phone plans for our employees on-the-go meeting customers.
We bring our dogs to work, get creative at Hack-a-thons, throw impressive happy hours and holiday parties, celebrate with team boat trips and escape room challenges, and let off steam with foosball, cricket, and ping pong!
At AppDynamics, we believe that the growth and development of a diverse employee community fosters innovation and enhances our competitive position with broader perspectives.
We believe that women bring invaluable qualities to the playing field. Women offer a unique diversity in their styles of communication, thought processes, approaches to problems, creativity, and novels point of views that is unparalleled by any other factor. That is why we strive to foster a female friendly work environment that will attract and retain the best women in the workforce. It is the synergy created by everyone collaborating together that makes AppDynamics an innovative place to be and provides the best opportunity for success.
Here are some of the ways we invest in Women in Technology:
Stem Awareness in Local Schools
Sponsors of She’s Geeky, WhenSheSpeaks, and The Grace Hopper Celebration
Sponsorship of various University WiCSE Groups
FountainBlue Luncheon - Women Leading Innovation Panelists, October 2016
It is very important to us as a company to be as innovative as possible, and to be innovative, we must foster a diverse environment, where people from different backgrounds can contribute their ideas in a space they feel safe. Supporting historically underrepresented groups, such as the LGBQTA* Community, is the best way to attract those individuals to the organization, and continue to help grow and diversify our workforce. As our founder Jyoti Bansal says, “There can be no innovation without equality."
Here are some of the ways we invest in Pride in Technology:
Engage in outreach: assist in LGBQTA events in the tech community
SF Office Pride Celebration, June 2016
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We appreciate and celebrate differences, and believe a diverse workforce benefits our employees, products and customers.
Greylock Techfair, July 2016
As a new graduate or intern at AppDynamics, you won’t be fetching any coffee, but you will be expected to dive into our codebase and make an impact starting from your very first day. This is the time to practice your skills, solve interesting technical challenges and work on cool products that millions of people actually use. You will be given the responsibility to work on critical projects, and build features from scratch and guess what, you get to determine all the architectural details on your own, meaning that you have the freedom to try what you want!
Our startup within a startup model gives you a lot of creative space to try things your way, and our world-class mentors are there to guide you. You get to be around experienced individuals who are really good at their craft -- they aren’t just smart people with technical expertise, they understand the process of how software gets built and know how to manage the process so you learn to build in the right way.
We have opportunities for new grads and interns in our various departments and engineering teams. Our open culture invites you to find the right spot where your passion and skills can come together. Explore our openings and find your perfect fit on our team.
Interns in their natural habitat, Summer 2016
Our team travel starts in September and ends at the end of October. Interview processes begins in September, and we usually fill most of our positions (full time and intern) by the end of December. Our interview process consists of:
We are able to give you a decision within a matter of days, so we won’t keep you anticipating for long!
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I have been working at AppDynamics full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
To understand the culture of AppDynamics, you need to start with its founders. Both Jyoti and Bhaskar were engineers before they started AppD. This means the company is very focused on technology and innovation which is great if you care deeply about DevOps and performance.
That being said, the culture is also growing and changing as more people join the company. It's a delicate balance between new and old but the growth challenge is what drew me to the company.
Everyone I've met has impressed me with a great work ethic and a willingness to push the envelope. This is not a company for people who want to sit back and turn on cruise control. I come to work every day excited to learn something new and help push the company a millimeter in a new direction.
Compensation is great here. The benefits are awesome. Drinks and snacks in the kitchen. Massage therapists two days a week. Good health care coverage. You've got everything you would expect of a tech company.
The bottomline is - join AppD if you want to grow your career and gain experience taking a company from 1000 employees to 10,000.
Cons
As I mentioned in the Pros section of my review, AppD is growing very fast. That means there will be some growing pains as people join and add to the culture of the company. All of this growth is exacerbated by the fact that we have very aggressive goals in the next 4-5 years.
Communication can be a challenge at times - making sure the left hand knows what the right hand is doing.
Hiring can be challenging because we're a very enterprise-focused company. That means our market awareness is not as strong as other companies in the valley. This will change as we continue to gain market share.
Advice to Management
Protect and maintain a culture of engineering, technology, and innovation. This is what will keep AppD competitive in the marketplace and attract top talent.
Be willingness to teach, mentor, and grow your employees so that they stay for the long haul.
We should make it clear that culture is very important at AppD and we should continually express and explicitly state our culture to employees year-round.
Have fun as much as possible. Keep doing awesome Halloween events. Keep doing ugly sweater parties. Keep volunteering around the world. Keep smiling.
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at AppDynamics.
Interview
Initial Recruiter call ,then followed by their both East and West Coast managers . Then onsite for 4 hours with Their Senior consultants .
I got excellent rating on tech interview but they rejected me because i dont have customer facing skills ( i work for major tech consulting firm with 10 years experience and i worked VP and C level Executives), i was surprised and i told them that i am ready for accepting a lower role. it Turns out they had problem with my salary and not with client facing skills. Then Hiring manager again wanted me to interview with their principal architect ( tech round) . Interview was very simple and again they rejected me . When i asked interviewer they said to debug java contention i told the interviewer that i will analyze thread dumps . And interviewer was saying thats something a sysadmin do . This is when it occurred to me that these guys were going to reject me no matter what . Doing a thread dump analysis a basic thing that anybody does before trying to fix . I am not sure how come their principal architect is not aware of this . Anyhow i guess not joining this team is blessing in a disguise . Their product team should interview the consulting team , i dont think quality of professional services doesn`t match with their Product team .
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