AppDynamics Employee Reviews
Out of 77 AppDynamics employee reviews, 71% were positive. The remaining 29% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping AppDynamics improve their work culture. The Sales team, with 79% positive reviews, reports the best experience at AppDynamics compared to all other departments at the company. The Marketing team offered the most constructive feedback, with 75% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Disorganized, feast or famine, brain drain, now bureaucratic Cisco no longer AppD
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
approachable, knowledgeable, transparent, care about setting up the team for success.
The diversity and willingness to listen to everyone
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They are transparent in the things driving their decision making. They vocalize the risks we face and formulate a clear, and well communicated, plan to achieve further success under those circumstances.
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True collaboration across all functions.
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Insanely smart, driven, amazing big picture view, willingness to get in the weeds with people.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
DEI - being fair to all employees (managers and support staff). Empathy - mental and physical wellness is important to employees - don't hold these against the employee. Honest and open - clear is kind; unclear is unkind. Be honest and open and don't lie. Advocate for your direct report.
Being transparent, not thinking their employees are stupid, facing reality
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Setting goals and measuring execution. Provide a clear vision.
Care about their employees and foster an environment for career growth
Review from Marketing Dept
Communication with the teams. Having a long term-strategy. Bringing everyone together.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Stock option - available to all employees regardless of title or status. Other compensations such as big bonuses, stock awards and equity are only given to upper management.
the benefits are amazing and really easy to use
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The Family Reimbursement Program reimburses each employee up to $50,000.
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Benefits via Cisco are best in the world. Stock package rewards for performance
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better pay and benefits like 401k than competitors
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Too many employees not enough work, slow to move in an agile space. Cisco bogs down AppDynamics snd competitors are surpassing
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Compensation is relatively low compared to other similar tier company. More RSU and higher Base salary to be more competitive in the job market.
Company emphasizes non base salary to be competitive, but this can dissapear fast if markets do poorlu so its not as dependable
More in line with the industry
What are some of the best things about your team?
We have a team of people who are always willing to pitch in to assist if needed
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They are collaborators and have a "No I in Team" attitude that is shared throughout.
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Hard working and trustworthy. Good people who care about each other in and out of the office
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My peers are smart and resilient, and are great at what they do. They are eager to work as a team.
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Our team has a lot of bright minds.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
I do not trust my team as I have been thrown under the bus behind my back. It's hard to trust they have my best interest in mind.
Focus on hiring the right people for the right reasons and do more support professional development
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Everyone is on the same team. No one is afraid to ask for help
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They are inclusive to everybody
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Positive leaders breed positivity and resilience
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everyone is happy with each other and not at all like what the competitors said it would be like
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We are humble about our accomplishments and quick to celebrate individual achievement.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
True DEI efforts where everyone is truly equal. Support for the AAPI community (ERG would be great). eStaff open to listening to the employees. Actually doing something about high attrition. Be honest.
Focus on delivering technology first and foremost. Do that by figuring out a more collaborative way for Cisco and AppDynamics to work together. Too many internal conflicting interests that ultimately detract from the holistic solution delivered to the customer
Review from Sales Dept
Change the Bro Culture, give employees a work/life balance (a large emphasis is put on forcing family to pick up your slack so you can focus on work 150%), and, while the process works insanely well, they need to recheck the reality of how relationships are formed in accounts/timelines, etc.
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Hold people accountable, make the work less bureaucratic and make people come to work.
What did you like most about the interview process?
Very straight forward and easy.
We look for curious, coachable and humble people with appropriate work experience
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The Practical Lab component had us do installs using the software.
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Very thorough and all asks of me made sense. No ridiculous questions or games
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It was fast (didn't waste my time or theirs).
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Interview process was strong just very time consuming
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What makes you most happy at work?
Being able to make a difference in the new hires onboarding and journey
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Learning new skillsets and sharing solutions with our customers.
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The solution is amazing, and my peers are phenomenal.
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being able to sell the best software in the industry
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I am surrounded by a highly effective and motivated team.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The company is dying a slow death.
Cisco bureaucracy, slow to advance career, brain drain at the company, too many reps. Make patches bigger, find a way to more easily sell with Cisco, pay competitively to other major software organizations
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People won't show up or show up late for meetings. Overall chaos which leads to duplicate efforts.
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