Applied Research Associates reviews

Management emphasizes that all employees are to perform marketing work, but were no good examples to follow. There was some trouble with stability at the time of my departure.

- Management definitely played favorites in our department. Particularly if you were a female the boss thought was cute, which I was not. - Management can be very unclear as to objectives and very unclear as to how they want you to get something done - The way the chain of command is structured, you'll often end up with a supervisor that has no understanding of your job duties, but still has to grade your performance based on what THEY understand you did - If you're not an engineer or a scientist, you're just another support staff peon and you definitely know it. - Support staff like IT, HR, and Accounting are regularly thrown under the bus by their managers - Typically, once you're in a position at this company, that's it; there's no real room to move up and the raises (at least for my department) were just really low. - Don't listen when they tell you that you can get college assistance. You only get reimbursed for the individual classes that your boss finds relevant to your job title, so about 90% of the time, you get turned down.