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      3.2

      45% would recommend to a friend

      (252 total reviews)
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      Rob Sues

      52% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

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      Applied Research Associates has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 252 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applied Research Associates employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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      252 reviews
      4.0
      Jan 26, 2010

      A pretty decent defense contractor

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Lots of small-team, short-timescale projects, so you get a lot of hands-on experience coding. Smarter tech workers than your average government contractor. Good benefits. Management is largely ex-technical workers, so they're more inclined to not be idiots.

      Cons

      Career advancement requires customer marketing and project management - including all the boring parts like accounting and personnel management. Hope you don't like actually making software too much! Company as a whole might be very diverse, but most projects done at any one division are in a very narrow focus.

      3.0
      Jun 16, 2009

      Good place to work for lower level developers.

      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Employees have lots of personal freedom in how they do the job and there is a wide variety of projects. If you're into technical sales and marketing you can do really well. You get to use a lot of different technology and interact with the clients. Great retirement benefits.

      Cons

      Development planning in non existent, just do or die. The corporate culture really encourges workaholics if you want to climb the ladder. Much of your compensation is in company stock in the retirement plan so the pay tends to be somewhat below average.

      4.0
      Oct 22, 2008

      Decent, not great, not horrible

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      work schedule was flexible, and telecommuting was cool too. access to new technology for completing work was readily available, which made doing the work enjoyable. the projects were pretty cool, and i think that if you were a rock star you could make some good headway in the organization. the yearly corporate trips for networking / etc. were pretty good too. good times.

      Cons

      not a very dynamic place to be. kind of slow overall. a good place if one can get deep in the work and comfortable with a singular work scope. management's communication of strategic direction could be improved.

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