Death by Powerpoint..Run! - Anonymous employee Dassault Systèmes Employee Review

1.0
Feb 17, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

standard 401k and company match, standard health coverage and benefits. There are some really smart people working here.

Cons

Where do I begin? - very dark, negative work environment. they are really good at deflating whatever self esteem people come in with and make you question how you got there -QBRs can be a public shaming event, leadership get their rocks off on grading people's presentations, as if this is the end all, be all. rather than trying to figure out how they can best support reps, they end up demotivating the team, and morale is way down. -You're out of the field more often than you are in the field doing internal meetings - powerpoint decks are 70-100+ slides deep. On a good day, it's 50 slides. imagine you're the prospect sitting through 50-70 slides of information. Prospects probably want to wrap things up after 20 slides. Imagine having to put together said deck and have to go through at least 5-10 iterations of slideware and internal critique. -Very dated practices, dated looking software, customers compare it to looking like windows 95. As opposed to more forward thinking companies in the software industry where prospects can do trials or demos and move to POC fairly quickly, they wade through and are mired in heavy powerpoint presentations and stuck in this mentality of "this is the way it's always been done" rather than being flexible/nimble/agile. -If the software works, it's a miracle

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