AppDynamics Reviews

Pros

Amazing benefits thanks to Cisco
Perks and office culture of a startup
Smart, hardworking coworkers who genuinely care about helping you out
Accessible, down-to-earth executives

Advice to Management

Keep focusing on the strategic initiatives and keep honing and editing the priorities to provide clarity.

Pros

Very professional, technologically advanced and accepting

Advice to Management

Keep up the Good work! Please simplify on-boarding and sign-ons

Pros

The biggest pros for me, is the culture and the people here. AppDynamics truly cares about the people who work here and does a great job at building a strong community for us to learn, grow and challenge ourselves. Everyone here is very supportive, sharing best practices to ensure you are successful. I am surrounded by people who constantly push me to be better and help me get there.

Advice to Management

Continue open communication with employees especially as we are more integrated with Cisco.

Pros

* Entire compensation package is awesome.
 * Tons of very smart people who all want to succeed.
 * Great focus on work-life-balance.
 * People's input is valued and requested from senior management.

Advice to Management

Keeping asking employees for their advice, its working to create a positive culture.

Pros

Great place to work
Ample of learning opportunities
It was a startup when I joined and the team was great

Pros

- Leader in the APM space *along with Dynatrace and others who are catching up
- Leadership team (CEO, CRO, VP of Sales, etc) are A-Players, world-class leaders
- In "most" cases you are treated with respect and once earned, trusted to do your job (i.E., run your individual franchise, drive revenue)
- Training, resources (SE's, $, marketing, etc) all available, there's nothing you can think of asking for that they wouldn't at least consider providing if it means helping you drive revenue
- Work hard, play hard, realizing that's cliche, it truly is the case, however. You are required to work your tail off and the upside could potentially be exponential. More $1m earners than I've ever seen at a single place in my career.
- Generally speaking, most people and leaders want to help and access to C suite, product folks, people that can help de-risk and drive a campaign forward are there.

Advice to Management

I found my time at AppD generally rewarding, learned a lot and met many great people. I would say that the feast or famine, the lack of a true meritocracy (although they would like you to believe that is the case) is problematic. You've had many talented salespeople move on because they weren't put in a position or helped to be successful (super successful). Find creative ways to keep your sales people in the game, good luck.

Pros

The support the AppDynamics team provides from an enablement standpoint is incredible. I feel the process matched with the enablement support are setting me up for success.

Pros

I have been working at Appdynamics for a little over half a year and am most impressed by how everyone's input is valued. Generally, everyone works towards a common vision, but is given the freedom to execute on that vision with their own unique style. There truly is respect for the individual.

Advice to Management

Don't let the culture get watered down as we continue to grow.

Pros

Good snack bar
WFH culture
Basic bay area tech goodies

Advice to Management

Improve product to a level its desired by customers not pushed as part of massive sales machinery

Pros

This is a great place to work for anyone in sales or straight out of college; not so much for experienced professionals. You get catered lunches and reasonable benefits.

Advice to Management

The Cisco overlay is bound to happen within the next couple of years and the gravy train will come to a halt. Lack of investment in a great product will ultimately lead to key talent going elsewhere. Invest in culture and product before the solution becomes shelfware.