Bentley Systems Reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,421 total reviews)
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Nicholas Cumins

87% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Bentley Systems has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,421 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bentley Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
10 Aug 2017

A company with some great products but lacking long term vision

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Pros

A relatively relaxed work enviornment, which if utilized properly can foster good creative and productive work. Internal facilities are well provided for. If one works in the right team and product, we get a chance to contribute to a large user base throughout the world which is satisfying for people doing work for the right reasons.

Cons

Bentley as a company lacks singular vision. It created or acquired great products a long time ago which had market monopoly and is now trying to reinvigorate the company by following some arbitrary "PROCESS" set by upper management. What they don't get is that great products are not made by following process. It is made by hiring creative people in both the software engineering and domain specific engineering department. It is then followed by aggressive sales and marketing. But management has flipped this key aspect by promoting the sales and marketing people; and that ends up changing everything: Who gets hired and what is being discussed in meetings. The focus is now on quarterly earning reports and not what a product may look in 5 years. It would be a good strategy if we made soda or sold shoes or even mobile apps, but we are in a different business. Our user base is different and they have very specific sets of requirements. Management seems to forget that and as a result, the product suffers. The work of domain engineers is not respected or appreciated (through compensation or recognition) and there is no focus on actual long term R&D.

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Bentley Systems Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share feedback about your experience working for Bentley. We are sorry you have these feelings about your employment at Bentley and have shared this feedback with our global HR team and with senior leadership so that they can have insight on the issues which have been expressed in order to identify ways in which we can improve. I suggest you contact India HR team if you wish to further discuss your concerns.
1.0
14 Jul 2016

Not so good.

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Pros

Free lunch. Free cab. Not so late working like service based but yeah extended work hours sometime. Good project work.

Cons

Just writing review to let other people know about current situation of company and to let management know how a employee feels. I have joined Bentley 1 year back from a big and awesome organization so can feel the difference in work culture. Recently fired a lot of people .Even in meeting employees listen that either we need to achieve that target or company can cut short the team.(seriously where is job security) Already fired experienced people having 8 to 10 years of experience in Bentley. Unprofessional way of working. No work from home policy because according to organization people use it in wrong way. This proves they doesn't trust their employees. People are not intellectual , you can ask anything in which they are working and they are like blank. They hire you as different technology developer and put you in another( man if you require .Net person so why you hired xyz technology person). Not as such flexibility. In short it seems a mistake joining Bentley from big organization. If you need job desperately then join Bentley otherwise at least join a company with some job security. Not so good pay.

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Bentley Systems Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback about Bentley Systems.
1.0
10 Aug 2017
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Pros

You will see some people here who are labelled as software development person and they are always involved in various non-technical event activities throughout the year. So, if you are not good in your job, and you don’t have any interest to learn anything new, but you are expert in keeping the managers and senior management pleased by buttering, then don’t worry, Bentley Kolkata is the right choice for you. This office will keep you involved in event activities as well as office administrative activities. So in spite of being an engineer, you will do the job of HR here and the inefficient managers will appreciate on that.

Cons

No work pressure, you will always be in comfort zone and it will make you lazy, out of market over several years of employment here. You will not know any new technologies, new tools, new responsibilities, you will not understand how the IT industry works at all. So basically, you will become a good for nothing in IT industry after several years. If you are developer here, you will be frustrated by doing software programming in a clerical way every day. Nothing new to learn from these products, and management is not at all interested in personal and professional growth of any employee. Performance reviews or career opportunities are improper as your those also depend on some corrupted political manager (who are not at all involved in your daily tasks). So, if you have not buttered them and you have only done good works over last year, don't expect any thing good in your paycheck or any promotion. You first duty to achieve success here is to pamper some of the influential managers here. These managers are always involved in office politics. They always stay in a group and there are some senior colleagues too, who always butter them by having cigarettes outside with them or by joining wine parties, giving home drops etc. This way the managers here get impressed and only those guys get the promotion and many other opportunities. Whenever people from outside office come to Kolkata office, this group handles everything. Senior managers always keep their trusted ones involved with the outsiders so that their dirty office politics does not get leaked outside. Just to keep their regular office politics as a secret within them, the local office management committee has not even recruited a local HR here. All the office activities are in hands of those people who are trustworthy enough to not to disclose the dirty office politics. You will see inefficient people here getting promotion just because of good relation with managers here. These inefficient people also know that they will not get a single penny outside this company (of course because of their inefficiencies) and so they are always busy in their buttering activities. If you are a hard worker who expects fair judgement and honesty and who does not care about buttering the managers here, then sorry, this place will only make you frustrated over years. While working for 10-15 years here, you will get frustrated by seeing unfair treatments every day, only a specific lobby of people who are involved in buttering some managers here will get good increment, promotion etc. No value for your knowledge here. Your salary will get incremented very quick if you are in this lobby. For people with good knowledge and skill, but not in this lobby, they will always remain poor here.

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Bentley Systems Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share feedback about your experience working for Bentley. We are sorry you have these feelings about your employment at Bentley and have shared this feedback with our global HR team and with senior leadership so that they can have insight on the issues which have been expressed in order to identify ways in which we can improve. I suggest you contact India HR team if you wish to further discuss your concerns.
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