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Dassault Systèmes

A company that is out of touch with its customer's and as well as its own people. It is also out of time (analogous in the musical sense) with its own technology, what its actual customer's needs are, and always operating in catch up mode. To summarize in a few words: great marketing coupled with old technology (no matter what they advertise) and a total inability to execute. This review also excludes the SolidWorks brand. Do not be fooled by all the glitz and imagery or you will be pay the ultimate price with your career. A few cons to a potential endless list are: 1.) an old CAD company attempting for years to venture into new unfamiliar technology domains yet no matter what they do they are still an old CAD company at heart and worse - operate that way. 2.) old technology – their main product is CATIA V5 - a product based on core technology dating back to the late 1970's yet is still a huge revenue generator to their bottom line. This is followed by ENOVIA (the technological basis for what they call the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform) - another very old product revamped to look new but also based on very old core technology dating back to the early 1990's with layers upon layers of newer technologies interconnected to make it work with the newer technologies of today that did not even exist when the core product was conceived now almost 30 years ago) 3.) French based company that operates as a French based company in the USA. If you are not familiar with how companies operate in France think bureaucracy, adversary relationships with employees, strife and more. If you are an American who has never worked for such a company do some serious research on this topic in advance. 4.) No real executive leadership in the USA - executives are typically pawns sent over from France or brown nosers based in the US who are politically on a high with executive leadership in France. Executives leadership in the USA is analogous to robots reading a script with zero leadership qualities to begin with nor power to execute. 5.) Disconnects between all internal organizations and groups within a company that supposedly develops tools that allows companies to collaborate yet fails to collaborate amongst themselves. 6.) The ratio of American employees in the USA is quite off balance when compared to foreign and H1B visa holding employees. Few American employees hold high ranking positions of leadership at any level within the organization which translates to career stagnation for many who are in fact American citizens.

In summary: a completely revenue driven company with a big vision for the future (that in reality is more inline with a fantasy) which is based almost entirely on very old technology proprietary technology at the platform foundation level and where customers followed by employees come last.

Theres nothing wrong with collecting a steady paycheck, good benefits and working 8-5. The question is: are you willing to sacrifice career growth, upward movement and respect for it? Can you bear to  watch experienced and intelligent people suffer the same fate on a daily basis? Here it is in a nut shell...

10,000 person company ruled by a small circle of upper echelon executives at the headquarters in Velizy. Their leader requires everyone adhere to his grand vision and institutes mandatory brand management meetings with the executive team every six weeks to ensure no one deviates from the master plan. He and his vision come first. Customers and employees a distant second. 

They wish to be viewed as innovative and forward thinking. This public portrayal is anything but true. 

Plans are crafted months in advance, kept close to the chest and handed down through the ranks on a need to know basis. There's no room for input or discussion. Everything is dictated. That's the management style. Discussion is not an option. Forget what your role is on a product is or how long you and your customer base have committed themselves. The worst part is that at the end of the day, achieving objectives and goals is irrelevant because your position and salary are weighted by a complex and calculated system that seeks to control and stifle your growth. 

Don't like how things work? Then either get with the program or leave. They make no bones about it and have said so in no uncertain terms. 

See: Space, Office (The Movie)

The company has really good vision but the execution is just not there. The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform looks great in demos and extremely powerful but from my experience its laggy and has a lot of quirks to it that prevent it from being an enjoyable experience. The standalone products I've used work great its simply when they are integrated into the platform where they get hard to navigate. 

I work in the Services organization for North America. I haven't worked outside of this organization but from what I've heard, services is the armpit of the company. 
The pay raises are abysmal so make sure to negotiate your starting base salary well and have as little of it in the variable compensation (I'm not in sales but could be different for that) 

One pro, pre-covid it was really easy to work from home. Since covid I've had to go to the office one time and that was because my home internet crashed. 


Great company with challenging problems for early career applicants. It is also good for late career since has good benefits and great work/life balance. 

But there is lack of purpose in the company and constantly re-organizing themselves. The mission is so borad that there isn't really any clear objective other than making $$$ for the investors.

If you are in your mid-career or early but looking for a place to really grow your career, it is not the place for you.
If you are looking for a place with sense of purpose, this is also no the place for you.  

It may look good at first but you will eventually get disappointed.

The structure is very flat so expect lack of growth in the technical or leadership domain. The upper management is all French or European. So if you wanted to grow real up, start as soon as possible with your french citizenship. If you cannot get one, forget to have a say in the direction of the company. 

In 20+ years of sales, I have never experienced a worse set of sales leaders as I did at Dassault Systemes in North America. In fact, I shouldn't even use the term "leaders" because that would imply they actually led. The  problems resulting from the sales management team include: 1) constantly changing the sales strategy 2) not backing and supporting their employees 3) very slow to pay sales commissions 4) avoided paying commissions when possible 5) avoided meeting with customer leadership 6) Incredibly large and highly inefficient sales operations greatly impeding sale. 

It is clear that Dassault Systemes still does not know how to effectively have and utilize a sales organization. This fact will be the downfall of the company unless significant changes in sales leadership occur.

Long-term staff have pretty security job but small chances to advancement. Company tries to force people to working in office but virus forced them to let ppl work from house. French ppl drive all decisions. Heavily bureaucratic. Cpy makes phony efforts to try to make staff think they care about staff. Execs only care about stock prices and making them more richer. Hard to feel part of cpy. Make many acquisitions. Do work to push boundary. Very heavy internal structures. Still very lots of silos between brands and divisions. Communication not strong. Do not trust leaders. Seem many people escorted out but generally ok job secureity. no hope to advance. get your 2-5 yrs experience then leaf is my advise.

You try to show you want advancement by taking on extra responsibilities.  Management sees it as a way to save $$.  They don't pay well at all.  They typically pay you below the 25th percentile of what the area average is on Salary.com.

Management in my area does not want to grow their employees.  They rather keep them in a box  and use them to their advantage.  They see no reason to increase their employees skill level, or let them try something new.

They treat current employees like objects.  They do nothing to entice you to stay when you leave.  It's been said "it's OK that you leave, there are 25 other people in line wanting your job!"  99% of the people who have left, have gone because of no promotions, bad management, and low pay.

You have to be in the management "clique" to go anywhere in the company.

The pay is fair. The benefits are good/competitive. They recently decided to start unlimited vacation in USA effective Jan 2022, which caused quite a stir.
There is little to no chance for advancement. New salary structures started this year could mean you get zero salary increase unless you overperform, but since they limit the percentage of overperformers, you could see zero salary increases. That means you lose salary against inflation. This makes it important for new hires to get as high a salary as you can at the start.

The company is pushing out longtimers with this new salary structure and vacation policy, in my opinion.

Dassault Systemes Americas Corporation is a well run company that supplies Product Life Cycle Software for Engineering, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Architecture, Building and Construction Industries, Medical, Geological Resources Management, Finance, Shipbuilding, Automotive and Aerospace Industries.

Management is forward thinking and leader ship is strong at every level.  Team spirit  is strong.  The marketing goals are challenging.
The product set and service to customer is the highest priority.

The fulfillment of products and services that improve science , the environment and life is the most enjoyable.

Dassault Systemes is a french company which has not adapted to the US market. This is something that is constantly brought up. Every year we have poor results in the Great Place To Work survey in regards to benefits/pay. The pay is way below average, and it cannot be compensated for the "job security" the company guarantees.  In my opinion, this is a way to take advantage of employees. No matter how much you invest yourself on the quality of your work, only seniority really makes a difference. The company does not like promoting based on accomplishments, but based on this seniority. This makes growth extremely slow, and promotions are very difficult to attain. 

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