The company has a noble story. When everybody listens to the words of the CEO for the first time , you will be impressed. he has such a noble vision and is such a great person: He wants healthcare accessible and affordable to everyone. He says to us this is an open and equal company and, just like in the other propaganda review being said 'Just keep asking, listening and improving', everybody believe they have found the perfect place to work.
BUT!!!:
THE FACT IS THE OPPOSITE!!!
When you work in this office, you feel like you are in a 'freedom-controlled communism country'. You know what I mean: everybody appears to be very happy as superficially, but in fact deeply depressed.
Have any of you who knows the Silicon Valley scam company 'Theranos' and read the book 'Bad Blood'. I red it, and I found sooooo familiar when reading the management style of Elisabeth and Sunny. Because that's exactly the same way as we being managed in Applied: Fear management, no encouraging communication, no asking questions, only obey.
We are criticized and threatened by our manager, when pointing out the data and numbers were actually wrong. Because this didn't align with her interest, and we were, in her eyes, the 'trouble creator'.
My manager has been at Applied for many years, and is already on the director level. You could imagine somebody like this must have solid knowledge in our business or at this understand our business well. however, one day she looks at my work and asks impatiently: "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UTERUS and URETER?"
OMG, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
By the end of the day, it is nice to have after work sport activities and nice lunch and a little bit of extra pocket money every month. However, employees really don't come to work for these everyday. We can go to gym for sport or if we feel what we do are worthwhile, we are happy to endure a poorer lunch. But we want to come to work for being appreciated for what we do, we want to be respected by our managers, instead feeling like being treated as slaves (come on, in modern society, in the Netherlands?!) Working in this company makes you feel like you are really not in Netherlands, but some kind of dictatorship communism country. Maybe this is why most of the employees in this company are not Dutch, but people who just moved to this country and needing a job.
The biggest problem, hereby I want to reply to the whoever it is, the author of the review "Growing and improving":
It is not that we don't want to talk, or we just hated this company so much that we want to post on Glassdoor first without giving an effort to resolve the problem internally. But the problem is nobody listens to us, nobody helps us. We tried to raised the topic to personnel, and we got a chance to talk to the upper management, but it got suppressed. Everyone knows there is a 'small group' in this Amersfoort office, being toxic and bullying, but the upper management here brushed us off! So maybe stop the propaganda words because it just makes us feeling disgusting!
