Toxic Culture - Anonymous employee AspenTech Employee Review

Managers/supervisors blame HR for high staff turnover and for the company’s continued difficulty in hiring and retaining staff, but the management is archaic and toxic and this is the real problem. Micromanagers from other departments are allowed to stifle sales opportunities and those in high positions lack insight into fundamental technology and processes that this company needs to scale and remove very outdated practices. There is a saying that people should always assume positive intent, but at Aspen Technology it seems like management always assumes negative intent. There is an approach to people that is passive aggressive and hostile which makes life here hard. The pay at this company is not competitive with other local businesses. This makes it hard to justify staying and withstanding poor treatment when there are so many opportunities where culture and pay are substantially better. There is no work from home culture - this change is being pushed from the bottom up which is not how successful cultural changes occur. Throughout the pandemic the executives remained hunkered down in their wing of as if it was some great act of defiance and resistance while the rest of the staff worked from home. This alone spoke volumes of the outdated culture of management. There are diversity and inclusion initiatives, but they are insincere which was obvious when the women in leadership group’s claim to fame is their ability to provide cupcakes at staff events and host meetings to encourage women’s advancement while having the predominant speaker and representative of the group be a senior male staff member. It's also appears that the company is pushing fake reviews on GlassDoor to help hiring initiatives which is disheartening - there should be real change, not trying to put up a facade to pull the wool over candidate's eyes.