Bentley Systems reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,426 total reviews)
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Nicholas Cumins

88% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Bentley Systems has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,426 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bentley Systems 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
Aug 10, 2017
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Pros

You will see some people here who are labelled as software development person and they are always involved in various non-technical event activities throughout the year. So, if you are not good in your job, and you don’t have any interest to learn anything new, but you are expert in keeping the managers and senior management pleased by buttering, then don’t worry, Bentley Kolkata is the right choice for you. This office will keep you involved in event activities as well as office administrative activities. So in spite of being an engineer, you will do the job of HR here and the inefficient managers will appreciate on that.

Cons

No work pressure, you will always be in comfort zone and it will make you lazy, out of market over several years of employment here. You will not know any new technologies, new tools, new responsibilities, you will not understand how the IT industry works at all. So basically, you will become a good for nothing in IT industry after several years. If you are developer here, you will be frustrated by doing software programming in a clerical way every day. Nothing new to learn from these products, and management is not at all interested in personal and professional growth of any employee. Performance reviews or career opportunities are improper as your those also depend on some corrupted political manager (who are not at all involved in your daily tasks). So, if you have not buttered them and you have only done good works over last year, don't expect any thing good in your paycheck or any promotion. You first duty to achieve success here is to pamper some of the influential managers here. These managers are always involved in office politics. They always stay in a group and there are some senior colleagues too, who always butter them by having cigarettes outside with them or by joining wine parties, giving home drops etc. This way the managers here get impressed and only those guys get the promotion and many other opportunities. Whenever people from outside office come to Kolkata office, this group handles everything. Senior managers always keep their trusted ones involved with the outsiders so that their dirty office politics does not get leaked outside. Just to keep their regular office politics as a secret within them, the local office management committee has not even recruited a local HR here. All the office activities are in hands of those people who are trustworthy enough to not to disclose the dirty office politics. You will see inefficient people here getting promotion just because of good relation with managers here. These inefficient people also know that they will not get a single penny outside this company (of course because of their inefficiencies) and so they are always busy in their buttering activities. If you are a hard worker who expects fair judgement and honesty and who does not care about buttering the managers here, then sorry, this place will only make you frustrated over years. While working for 10-15 years here, you will get frustrated by seeing unfair treatments every day, only a specific lobby of people who are involved in buttering some managers here will get good increment, promotion etc. No value for your knowledge here. Your salary will get incremented very quick if you are in this lobby. For people with good knowledge and skill, but not in this lobby, they will always remain poor here.

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Bentley Systems Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share feedback about your experience working for Bentley. We are sorry you have these feelings about your employment at Bentley and have shared this feedback with our global HR team and with senior leadership so that they can have insight on the issues which have been expressed in order to identify ways in which we can improve. I suggest you contact India HR team if you wish to further discuss your concerns.
5.0
Aug 10, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

You get many tasks which helps you to learn and gain experience. My manager was the best, always. Most colleagues are nice and willing to help. I had the best experience at Bentley Systems.

Cons

Company is too big and it can sometimes be a problem.

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Bentley Systems Response
8y
Thanks very much for sharing your experience while working in Bentley. It helps us confirm that our continuous effort to make it a great work place to work is giving good results.
1.0
Aug 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Kolkata office provides a friendly environment. Many knowledgable and helpful people are there. Work pressure is quite low and allows to maintain a good personal life.

Cons

Work culture is very poor. Kolkata office is being affected by politics conducted by local managers including floor managers. Managers are not transparent and fail to motivate others. Many managers spend time in collecting informatio of other's personal life. Many of them don't do effective work and surprisingly they are paid high perks. They don't allow others to move up in the ladder. The worst part is the local office management. Floor managers run own group comprising of ineffective people who are not accepted by other colleagues. Office events are conducted in a manupulative manner as office managers impringe own people who try to impress others by improvised fake forgein accent. One can find non technical people promoted as team manager. Managers don't allow effective team member to get a promotion. Salary offered to the effective people is very low. Managers only promote those people who can butter them. Mid level people from Kolkata office has to leave with a bitter experience. There is no HR team at Kolkata location. Working for a long time can be hurtful at Kolkata location. No salary hike and promotion is being offered. Only few person who work with Floor managers gets hike which is quite high compared to the others.

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Bentley Systems Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share feedback about your experience working for Bentley. We are sorry you have these feelings about your employment at Bentley and have shared this feedback with our global HR team and with senior leadership so that they can have insight on the issues which have been expressed in order to identify ways in which we can improve. I suggest you contact India HR team if you wish to further discuss your concerns.
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