Leadership driven deterioration of company culture, progression, and benefits - Anonymous employee Dassault Systèmes Employee Review

1.0
14 Apr 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There used to be many a few years ago. Now, not so much.

Cons

Leadership decisions in past 2 years: - Communicated there would be no redundancies, before then implementing them - 2 years of anti-meritocracy in EoY attainments, treating the high achievers as average and lowering their pay & promotion opportunities as a result. - Forcing accountability onto employees by downgrading EoY performance to avoid taking accountability that cost-cutting measures were required - Minimal to no internal travel with all budgets cut - Significant reduction in 2024 annual compensation reviews - Complete removal of 2025 annual compensation reviews - Consistent lack of transparency and leadership accountability. Always communicating negatives via email and positives via Town Halls, avoiding negative questions like second-rate politicians - Incompetently delivered and communicated Return To Office policy that marginalized and upset employees without provable business rationale - Updating of 100s of remote contracts to in-office without consultation, causing many to leave their roles or face disciplinary actions due to prior commitments to child/elderly care - Failure to increase wage brackets with inflation and market drivers - likely to act as an opaque cost-cutting measure - Last-minute reduction of stock grants due to apparent contract clause in all grant agreements - Secret all-expenses paid holidays for leadership and spouses, while implementing 'cost-cutting' for employees

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Pros

perfect work-life balance. Zero stress

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

This is a good place to get experience if you're interested in Aerospace, IT, Automotive, CAD, Engineering space. There are opportunities to learn and advance your career if you make the right connections.

Cons

Management is very unorganized due to constant shift in priorities. Be prepared to have a new manager assigned quarterly which will impact expectations for performance evaluations. This is a French company that manages business entities around the world. The US and French management are very disconnected. If you are assigned a manager who is based overseas, you will absolutely have a difficult time and minimal work life balance.

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