Appian reviews

* 3 days minimum in office for local employees (within 50 miles of the office). Many teams, however, have colleagues who are not local and will remain permanently remote - not very fair. Despite some employees originally being hired as completely remote, if you are within 50 miles of the office, you are now required to come in. * Many benefits (ie cafeteria weekly stipend, travel benefits to AWS, company store) have recently been suspended. * Not upfront about the organization's recent layoffs/"reorganization." Recently claimed to be "recession-proof" and promised employees there would not be layoffs - which has now proven to be untrue. * Employees are being laid off amidst the company's commitment to "aggressive new hiring".

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.