Anaplan reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,082 total reviews)
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Charlie Gottdiener

71% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Anaplan has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,082 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Anaplan employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
May 18, 2020

Bias, poor team mgmt practice

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Pros

exposure to a lot of new technologies flexible work hours

Cons

Bias: There is clear signs of favoritism and bias in this company. Passive HR: HR is dud. Employee concerns are often ignored and not acted upon. They don’t have employ friendly policies. Inexperienced Middle Management: Infra Eng Management doesn’t have strong leadership. They are not supportive of their team’s efforts and easily take blames from Eng org and look down upon their own team. There is so much of tech debt that they don’t prioritize. And if one is courageous enough to come forward to work hard and help, they wont be seen and supported as if management want us to suffer. It’s pretty clear that they don’t understand technologies that we run. So they keep hiring more managers and more people. There is quite a bit of turnaround in leadership positions. There is always a reset when new manager comes around. Also management don’t put enough thought in putting a team together. It’s mostly location based. Only strategy they have is “hire more” and everything will magically be fixed. SF management doesn’t believe in coaching and growing people from within the org. They rather hire from outside and fire if it doesn’t work. This again causes churn with no positive outcome. 
Poor team management : Even though team's skillset is very visible and quantifiable, they don't know their engineers and don't empower them. Leadership never take enough action to up skill incompetent members.
At the same time they don’t reward and recognize performant members. No public recognition, no growth. This issue is more location(SF) specific though. 
 No structure within the team for technology ownership(and managers clearly don’t know technology). Every team member does things their own way based on their knowledge leading to more technical debt. Management treat every team member as a equal when there is always enough evidence of the incompetencies. 
This leads to conflicts and dis-satisfaction within the teams. People are often let go if they ask hard questions to management. Career growth: Pay structure is very poor. People from college are paid same as seasoned engineers at this company. Managers don't have career path for their reportees.

1.0
May 11, 2020
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Pros

There's no pros to be said here.

Cons

HR spends more time adding fake reviews than they do fixing the culture at Anaplan. Everyone is afraid to speak up and when they do, they will face "political consequences". The talent is decent but the "technical" leaders are a joke. You will be amused that most of them can't code a print "hello world" statement. The organization is filled with decent talent who can't stop dreaming about quitting their jobs for better opportunities as well as upper-management who hide their mistakes by blaming others. Don't ever try too to work too hard here; you will never be recognized even if you are the real deal. This is the harshest review I have ever written but it has to be said before another job seeker destroys their career here. I am doing them a favor. If you had any type of respect for yourself, you wouldn't put yourself in this position.

5.0
May 11, 2020
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Pros

Honestly, Anaplan is amazing. To me, as a salesperson, it is important to truly believe in the positive impact you are making with your product - and with Anaplan it is easy because the product is phenomenal. The culture can't be beaten, great people who really love what they do. Really love this place.

Cons

It's not the easiest product to sell because it is really innovative and the ramp time for new reps is longer than average. However, once it clicks, it is easy to paint the picture for customers and prospects.

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