Here's is the main reason why you should never work for Anaplan: I raised a discrimination grievance after my white manager came at me about performance, two weeks later I was let go as part of "global layoffs"....WHILE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF CONTRACTS WITH MY CUSTOMER. A white account executive on my team inherited my account and closed the deal in 2 or 3 weeks after my departure and got the credit. The Chief Diversity Officer was useless in my situation and so was HR. I did all the heavy lifting on the account and they fire me and give the credit to some white AE on my team. Another white account executive on my team who started at Anaplan before me, who never closed a deal after being there for ~1.5 year, was not laid-off.... but instead he searched for another job and quit after securing another position. So they fire me who was in the middle of contracts with a customer, but let the white AE stay who didn't close a deal and was there longer than me..... and he ended up quitting the company ANYWAY! This should tell you the level of poor decisions Anaplan makes over and over again. That's not enough reason for you? There are AEs, SDRs, Customer Success team members who work their butt off in hopes to be promoted (and expressing interest in a higher promotion), but Anaplan will not do it. So many highly talented individuals have left Anaplan because they get passed over for a promotion. They'll hire someone from the outside and get placed in positions that people hoped to be promoted into. Every once in a while they'll promote someone to quickly fill a management position. Still not enough reason for you? Anaplan does not how to plan for a successful quarter. They are scrambling at the last minute to make their number. A lot of AEs do not make their first sale in the first year. It takes 1.5 years to make their first sale. On top of that, you can work on an account for an entire year, then the upper management will make the decision (with no rhyme or reason) to shuffle accounts and you're starting from scratch, or if you're lucky some poor AE has prime the pump for you on an account and you luckily inherit the account and you close the deal. Meanwhile that poor AE who worked on an account all year is left watching someone else get the credit for all you did. Your direct manager has no power no matter how much he/she will tell you that they will fight for you to keep your accounts or do this or that. Not even the Area VP has power. Anaplan does not know how to prove its value to the customer. They always say they save the customer time, but customers don't care about saving time, they care about 3 things: making money, saving money, and mitigating their risk. Anaplan does the worst job in figuring out how to put their value in those three buckets. Anaplan is now owned by a PE firm. A PE firm cares about one thing and one thing only....EBITDA. They will fire people, cut corners, do financial gymnastics to increase the EBITDA. They don't care about YOU!
