Great company, growing culture, toxic team - Anonymous employee Anaplan Employee Review

3.0
May 6, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Overall great COMPANY. Emphasis on the word company. - Leaders are everything. I trust our CEO whole-heartedly and believe he will (and has) take this company to the next level. - Our product is terrific. It is a total leader in the market. I can not say enough good things about our product. Kudos to the product and engineering team! - Pretty open and transparent communication. Feedback is very encouraged and answers are addressed candidly. - You can see they are trying to create a more collaborative culture: new technology, new spaces, etc.

Cons

Toxic team. Emphasis on the word team. - Some leaders are not fit to scale a department and the company in the direction we need to head. Although there are talented people at the company, others have leveled up based on sheer politics. This ironically is causing talented employees to leave. - No path to promotion or professional development. Instead, efforts are focused on how to "make us get along." - Pay is not competitive in today's market. - Sometimes expectations don't match with strategy. Upper managers will often put the pressure on their teams to meet deliverables with no help: no additional resources, support, guidance, or real plan on how to get there. This is masked by echoing "we are empowering YOU to be innovative and creative. Now go figure it out!" I don't feel empowered I feel entrapped.

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One thing I genuinely appreciated was that the C-suite seemed invested in keeping everyone in the loop. The monthly town halls felt like more than just a formality and gave you a real sense of where the company was headed. When you had a good stretch, people noticed. The company feels like it has real momentum and on a macro level.

Cons

Leadership was inconsistent in my experience and seemed to depend heavily on which manager you ended up with. It often felt like luck of the draw. I personally found the planning process to be more reactive than strategic, with urgency only kicking in once results were already suffering rather than getting ahead of it. The workplace culture also had a gossip element that I found draining over time. My biggest frustration was around performance recognition. I observed situations where reported numbers didn't seem to reflect reality, yet the consequences appeared minimal at best. I would have liked to see more transparency and accountability around how top performers were identified and rewarded, because in my experience the current approach didn't always feel equitable to those who were playing by the rules.

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Anaplan Response
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We appreciate you sharing such a detailed reflection of your time with us. It is encouraging to hear that our commitment to transparency through monthly town halls and our company's momentum resonated with you. Fostering a trusting, equitable workplace where everyone is fairly recognized and rewarded is central to our culture. We wish you the very best in your future endeavors.
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