Automation Anywhere Reviews

Well, honestly there are many here right now: 1. Ignorant / Arrogant exec staff (founders need to get out of the way). 2. Lack of diversity. Feels like it’s 95% Indian. Clearly there has been a bias (by founders) to hiring Indian employees for all roles. This is never a good strategy. I also feel like culturally this group has a blind spot (never willing to admit that maybe they don’t know something. Not accountable for results, and say everything is good and fine). 3. Outrageously naive and uninformed business practices and processes. Sales Operations team in particular (all out of India) have no clue how to build a CRM, booking process or any process. It’s not even worth tinkering with but needs to be completely blown up (start from scratch). Need entirety new organization for infrastructure ownership to enable scale. 4. Nepotism. Many ‘“leaders” here are friends of founders or became friends of founders (by winning a big deal). This should not qualify for leadership. Rather it contributes to the overall problem of people being way over their skis and generally unqualified for the function they hold. 5. Benefits. Medical plan choice is slim (only three plans, none with HSA). FSA carrier is cheap. No perks to working in HQ. Rincon office is depressing. Expense policies are pretty stingy. No joy or pride to be felt in working here. Don’t feel like this is a special place. 6. IT / Infrastructure support. Be prepared for nothing to work for at least a month. Okta implementation done all wrong. You won’t be given any of the tools and apps that you need, but will have to go beg for them one by one (first getting your managers approval for each one individually- despite some being fairly obvious)), then hunting down each app owner individually to ask them to give it to you. IT generally ignores emails and when they do pop up, only have 30sec for you. So frustrating and disables productivity. 7. Resistance to change. As mentioned, there is pride and ignorance here. The old timers are resentful of new people who have been brought in and subvert progress.

I can't think of anything positive to say about my time at Automation Anywhere. Being one of the 10+% who were laid off, I am very bitter how they laid people off. They laid people off via email. Cold and uncaring. The also already had replacements waiting in the wing for those laid off. Things they did wrong. CFO illegally reduced employees performance rates, so that, they would have to pay out less than owed. My manager directly told me this is how they were committing fraud to keep the lights on. Reducing my KPI percentage from 100% to 90%, costing me thousands in earned bonuses. Is it legal to cook the books and steal rightful bonuses from people? I was told directly by my manager to not be mad, as the remainder of my bonus would be coming the next pay out. It never came and of course they laid me off. The C-level new hires are toxic. New CMO created such a toxic environment since the first day they arrive, that is carried over to many other areas of the company. Intentionally causing departments to fragment under the strain of new ideas that net nothing in return. The culture of caring and family hood evaporated quickly. Working conditions, even while working Remote were completely changed after his hire and him hiring his friends in high ranking levels. Work/Life balance was destroyed before the lay offs. We had people working 70+ hours a week to help the company, only for them all to be laid off. CMO nepotism basically helped ensure he could hire his own friends and their companies while he double dipped in former companies he owned to get paid more than his salary. Nepotism and theft. If you want your wages and bonuses stolen...this is the place to work. Don't feel bad, they will just email you when they are done with you. They did keep some very lazy people in positions. The people they cut were the hard workers. The people they kept have failed upward.