APCON reviews

The negative reviews are accurate. The environment is toxic and employees never feel appreciated. It's pretty much whatever the king wants. The negativity starts and ends with the CEO. His management style is manic and random. It's the hot button of the week or whatever bee is in his bonnet. Employees aren't treated with respect and quite honestly, he doesn't have a clue. Unless you are desperate for a job, there is some place better out there.

The owner and CEO has precious little idea how to grow a company successfully. He has never worked in or grown a company of size. As a consequence, he micromanages everything, and often badly. Employees are treated as completely interchangeable and replaceable. They are viewed as an expense that must be minimized. There is virtually no opportunity for advancement; once you are hired, you're pretty much put into a box which is impossible to escape. Knowledge you bring and share about products and services, corporate development, process development and corporate quality will be considered irrelevant and obstructionist. The internal process for defining products revolve around satisfying the CEO's latest whim without regard to good user interface principles, good product design, quality of the released products, or the appropriate means for delivering the products. There is no cross-functional program management. There are no executive staff meetings -- the CEO will tell you what he wants you to know about what is going on in other departments. Although these statements could apply to many companies, APCON elevates them to an art form.