Despite promising the IPO wouldn’t change “the culture”, the culture has changed dramatically in the hands of inept, reactive leadership. They are putting in new metrics that are not only unrealistic but are performative at best. Sales leadership has new names but all still answer to and bid the doing of the tyrant other reviews refer to. Marketing is a revolving door of new and seasoned hires alike brought in as sacrificial scapegoats to force off the “glass cliff”. There’s a massive influx of newly hired salespeople with absolutely no new hires in supporting roles. There are no efforts at all by leadership anywhere to navigate for the long haul. The present environment has been overrun yes men, micromanagers, and leadership who have never actually lead their function prior to their Appian stint- all freaking out and reacting to Wall Street like they promised they wouldn’t. The veterans and the favored “District 1” will all soon be coming out en masse with their positive reviews here to counter reviews like this one. For everyone else caught in the mix- may the odds ever be in your favor.
