-Appian is a more sales centric organization than a product centric/ customer focused company
-Limited technical professional development experience outside of learning the Appian platform/ SAIL
-Promotions require building and presenting a "portfolio" to a committee for consideration
-Professional Services (PS) has limited input/ say over product roadmap (owned primarily by the engineering team)
-Unclear business strategy/ competing revenue streams within the company
-Lack of enforced best practices/ design paradigms across projects, long hours, and challenging timelines resulting in low quality applications delivered to clients. PS focuses on short delivery timelines to realize the value proposition of low code software development at the expense of application quality
-Senior leadership openly discusses plans to eliminate the PS arm of the company, creating lots of confusion and lowered morale among PS consultants