Company culture feels fabricated. Inexperienced managers who lack experience and leadership skills. Often times, managers were straight out of college that have been at Applied their whole career. CEO is put on a pedestal, "team" and "reducing the cost of healthcare" rhetoric is over the top. CEO's family is put into upper management. Lack of transparency of department goals and issues. Process engineering is more like QC/QS work. Management lacks understanding of electronics, even though the company is moving into the energy market. Company is extremely cheap/frugal, because the business model depends on selling product for cheap, which is hard to do when also having to invest in large manufacturing facilities. Company claims to "invest in the the people," but its hard to find evidence of such. Internal politics and department tension make it near-impossible to get work done efficiently. Obsession with bringing all manufacturing in-house is overkill and a burden for smaller projects. More money and time is spent "developing" new processes than is worth it. Company also has many issues with following industry standards and FDA regulations, saying "its not the Applied way." Engineering is treated like production, and the professional staff feels the company treats them like high-schoolers (example is childish holiday parties.) Management does not reciprocate 2-week notices often, choosing to escort former employees out before scheduled. Speaking out about issues is hard to do, there is always a fear of being fired for dissenting.
