Appian reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(791 total reviews)
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Matt Calkins

54% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Appian has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 791 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Appian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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791 reviews
4.0
Jul 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, great company. Excellent technology. The people are generally top-notch.

Cons

There was a bit of martyr culture, where people were celebrated for making big personal sacrifices for clients or the company. This created a bit of an arms-race of who could work the most or sacrifice the most that in my experience led to burnout.

5.0
Jul 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The product is great! The company works in an efficient manner! Also great Culture 👍

Cons

Will ads later once found one

3.0
Jul 11, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedule, great colleagues, smart people, collaborative environment, free food on Mondays and Thursdays, free snacks and soda, everyday.

Cons

Completely out of touch leadership. Senior executives here believe their title makes them a leader. None have any idea how to motivate a team to follow. The CEO does not have any concept of strategic thinking, long range planning, empathy, or what it means to be customer focused. He links strategy to mean "the product we sell." He thinks empathy...well...he doesn't think empathy at all. He's a billionaire with zero connection to real people, real struggle and real life. So he has zero ability to actually attempt to step into someone else's shoes for a different perspective. Nor does he care to try. He thinks being customer focused is going to a meeting with a customer or taking them to dinner. Not a hint about ease of doing business, listening to a customer's needs and problems, understanding what a customer values, versus what he thinks he should be able to tell the customer to value. For the rest of the company that actually understands all three concepts, we know we are successful in spite of our executive team, not because of it.

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