Anaplan reviews

Since Anaplan has been acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2022 the good old days are gone and moral is at all times low. The culture seems to be dead. TB is claiming that they want Anaplan to become a category leader, however all they are doing is cutting costs without any communication to employees on what strategy they are following. The new leadership are travelling the world to get to know people and are claiming that they understand Anaplan's culture and that people are key to the companies success. However they have shown to be technocrats that are only executing what they are being told by TB. The new CPO is distant and cold, has no people skills, and seems to be surprisingly naive when explaining during a company all hands meeting that she joined Anaplan through the backdoor with no interview process as she is good friends with the CEO.

After the Thomas Bravo acquisition they decided everyone is expendable, huge layoffs and no clear mission. They now decided WFH and all flexibility that comes with it is over, one of the new guidelines is you can't have a child at home when you are WFH... and 3 days a week in the office... when normally engineering teams are geographically spread out, so you'll be in the office alone, just so leadership can feel good when they come to the office and see you. They claim they are building culture... while destroying the best culture I've ever seen in a tech company. They also decided you have to report in advance at what hours you are gonna be working. They call this flexibility... but now you can't pop out for a GP appointment and compensate in the afternoon without making a huge deal out of it. It's sad to see your direct manager having no power or information, they are just out to make a quick buck even if that means destroying the company on the long run. PS: with all the new anti flexibility rules if you are from one of the groups that benefited from that, just run.. office drinks are back for old white males