AppDynamics reviews

3.8

65% would recommend to a friend

(892 total reviews)
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Linda Tong

55% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

AppDynamics has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 892 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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892 reviews
1.0
Apr 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You can trust the people you work closely with, but outside of that close group, you can't. Some very talented people but they are leaving now. To be successful here, just stay long enough, and you will be promoted because people will leave, and they've nobody else to promote. And then leave.

Cons

The culture is toxic and results from the CRO/CCO. His influence harmed the Professional Service org and oozed into the rest of the CS organization. Support Sr. Leadership lacks vision, innovation, and very little collaboration with other teams. Very little collaboration among the teams. Innovations to improve collaboration and productivity is snuffed out by the poor leaders. The products are outdated, and the competition has surpassed AppD. The company is not customer-centric and would instead focus on its internal metrics. Losing sight of what the customer wants to achieve and what it takes to complete the customer's desired goal.

2.0
Apr 5, 2022

Toxic Environment, zero accountability

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Meeting great people who share the same experience as you Cisco backing

Cons

- Toxic manipulative leadership - Bad work life balance. Management will tell you to enjoy your down time, and then contradicts themselves by contacting you on your time off to work. Most employees work 10-12 hour days unless you are on a team that can coast with ease. - Leadership in certain orgs offering “promotions” with no salary increase or level increase. - Titles not matching scope of work or level. Observed team leader titles not being equal to one another. The inequality on my team often fell on the woman. Blatant gender discrimination. - ZERO accountability. Seeing a leader continually discriminate, obvious inequality, favoritism and unethical actions. It gets reported by multiple people, and this leader remains in a position of power.

1.0
Mar 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Used to be an excellent company to work for with leading tech. Cisco still seems to be pumping money into the company. Previously excellent, proven, sales process which continues to be used as a model at other companies - however, this is being eroded by new leadership.

Cons

Declined rapidly over the last 12 months. - Lost lots of talent - Weak leadership (old leaders leave and new leaders are put in place by Cisco) - No longer leading tech - huge tech debt which has consumed years of dev time, with little to show for it. - Missed the boat on monitoring the cloud - playing catch up since. - Toxic/lazy staff retained at the expense of hard workers.

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