They look good on paper. Prepare for what's inside. - Anonymous employee Anaplan Employee Review

“Tell me what it’s like to work at Anaplan.” Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who looked really good on paper? By every account, this person was someone you should have just vibed with — they checked every one of your boxes. Instead, you spent the entire relationship trying to find chemistry, working through baffling communication problems, and fighting this persistent, nagging feeling that you just might be...settling? As harsh as this may sound, that’s what it’s like working at Anaplan. On the surface, the company looks good — they have a great product, hire great people, and maintain healthy stock. But all of that quickly fades away when you’re on the inside. Competing egos, high employee churn, and a questionable company-wide obsession with change all result in a need to continuously rebuild teams from scratch. You can expect inefficient processes, disconnected teams, lagging collaboration, floundering career development, and a general feeling that either no one really knows what they’re doing or they lack the basic resources to perform at a satisfactory level. Like spouses in a loveless marriage, employees generally react in three ways: —Some spot the dysfunction right away and leave well before their first year is up. They recognize they deserve better and they waste no time moving on. —The majority of employees believe that maybe if they just try harder and don’t give up they can make it work. “But we should be a good fit!” Yet within 1-3 years, they bitterly throw in the towel. (Especially if Cy Wakeman has been in to gaslight them.) They go on to find a healthy workplace and then wonder why they didn’t do it sooner. —A handful of people resign themselves to being okay with working in the mundane. Sure, they’ve settled but it’s comfortable, it’s familiar, and you better believe if you talk poorly about the company, they will be the loudest protestors in the room.