Read a real review, by a real employee: Anaplan, good if you're a customer, bad if you're an employee. - Anonymous employee Anaplan Employee Review

2.0
2 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good office location. Good effort on the CEO to have a platform for transparency. There are 'Frank Answers' sessions about 1x month.

Cons

Lies about office flexibility working from home... facilities is always making a big deal about being at your desk. Seniors play favorites and allow some team members to work from home 2x a week, but then others are required to be in office everyday. High turnover. Lack of communication among teams because of split teams across too many locations, resulting in redundancies/overlap in job functions. CAREER GROWTH - they RARELY promote internally, unless your bffs with the head of your dept, or if everyone above you gets fed up and leaves… which has happened TOO many times. TOO MANY POLITICS. With so many changes going on within the company, people who play nasty and are hostile are somehow rewarded... even promoted... Favoritism is real here and extremely clique-ish. (VERY, very clique-ish and not enough diversity or socialization) MANUAL PROCESS (oh god it hurts) - still in a time of manual processes. where people refuse to let go of control. I work with team members who don't know BASIC excel... THE FACILITIES - Our facilities team aren't the best. They think people are happy in the office (they aren't)... The job descriptions say they have catered lunch, but the only thing they cater is breakfast (1x a week)... Trashcans are in a terrible location, they aren't cleaned often enough. They attempt to select the healthy snacks, but no one on that team claims to knows anything about health or nutrition. We're out-growing the office... there isn't enough space and the planning of the building wasn't well thought out for 'HYPER GROWTH.'

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Anaplan Response
7y
We appreciate you calling out the FAQ (Frank Answers Questions) sessions. All of our leaders try hard to lead by example of being transparent, communicative, and open, one of our key company values. We have been focused heavily on providing extensive training and support. We recently completed our “Managing for Growth” training, a company-wide initiative to train all people managers on how to provide ongoing feedback, performance and development for their teams. In addition, we have created tools and resources to help employees take charge of their own growth and development. We created a “Planning Your Development” portal on our intranet where you can take a live, interactive self-assessment to help identify what growth and development opportunities are available to you. We also offer numerous other all company trainings, including Tilt, Reality Based Leadership (RBL), and Moments That Matter. We are always trying to improve the way we communicate with and develop our most valuable resource: our employees. We appreciate your feedback, and if you want to follow up, feel free to reach out to your HRBP, or directly to me at mike.leary@anaplan.com. Sincerely, Mike

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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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