AppDynamics reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(891 total reviews)
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Linda Tong

59% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

AppDynamics has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 891 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AppDynamics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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891 reviews
2.0
Dec 4, 2018

A sales driven company that lacks innovation

Anonymous employee
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Pros

This is a great place to work for anyone in sales or straight out of college; not so much for experienced professionals. You get catered lunches and reasonable benefits.

Cons

This a company that's being anchored by the sales team and CRO organization. Product Management, Marketing, Support, HR, and Operations are not valued. When the founder left, several engineers left as well which led to lack of innovation. The company produces new functionality that's driven by Gartner or a competition. The company is now comfortable having access to Cisco capital and feels that product management isn't a priority. What started off as a strong product is slowly declining. Many competitors have begun to catch up or surpass AppDynamics. The sales organization lacks diversity and received the most perks. The current CEO is not focused on new product development but more so how to sell as much software as possible. Sales compensation is paid out 6 months later and is often incorrect even with the new automated system. Sales organization receives the majority of perks and funding to party and hold meaningless offsites.

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AppDynamics Response
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Thanks for leaving us a review. Your feedback on the catered lunches and good benefits are spot on! However, we are sorry to hear you had an overall bad experience with our company. We believe that our leaders do have a vision to make strides and expand, and this can be backed by our rapid growth as a company overall. Best wishes in your future endeavors.
2.0
Apr 28, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

There is a decent culture, good product, has lots of potential. There is work fun balance and provides some nice equipment. Good codebase. Some employees and mgmt are friendly.

Cons

Work can be frustrating with not much scope at least if you are a beginner and even tho there is emphasis on transparency, people can get shot down and not everything is revealed at the time of hiring. Sometimes work can be donkey work. Not too much respect given to everyone and there are some in the company who think they are above everyone and can be arrogant and sometimes unhelpful. Employees shift occurs often since this is a mid sized start up and that goes to show they can't keep talent even if they were paid high. There aren't too many employee benefits except for the free food and drinks. Some people get hired out of desperation to fill the gaps.

2.0
Oct 25, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

All life very little work

Cons

This company has very very few releases per year. The leaders in this company talks about AI all day, but they don't know where to move to. All the original members left after the acquisition happened in a year or two. So the incompetent folks stepped up for the management role. They are not strong with management but either technical. They're managers but they are not good managers. The new hires are also usually incompetent. The people talks all day.

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