Applied Systems reviews

The system gets updated with a lack of care by the developers and often times the process is never thought out which makes it fall in the techs lap. Management never sees what is going on and only cares about how they look in a suit on the website. Any recognition is only given to people who are popular instead of all the people putting in the hard work on a daily basis. Support is never given anything but food as a "prize". I have been working here for over 5 years and still haven't been compensated for the years worth of work and dedication you put in to this company. People that have been there longer than I have all bad mouth it but they cant do anything about it. If you work extremely hard no one cares for what you do and if you don't work at all you will get the same benefits as the people who do. The company did continue to grow in profit even though they put a pay freeze on all of their employees saying "It will get better" when it really hasn't. They focus on winning over big companies to make their name look good over their competitors so they can claim the are the leader of their industry, but that's all they are focused on. They don't care about their employees or customers as much as they do on the next upgrade that will cause more problems just so customers can keep their support fees coming. If the system was that good, they wouldn't need to call into support every day on a new problem. Too many people quit and a lot of new people are hired constantly because of their lack of concern with the employees. The people that do quit don't get any benefits because they worked here.

Senior management does not seem to understand that they are running a software company. The developers are always the smartest people in the room, yet treated like peons. Developers opinions are not valued in meetings. Just nod your head, code whatever terrible feature Design wants, and take a mental note of everything you would do differently in your next job. Developers are also expected to have too much business intelligence and are constantly bombarded with BI questions from different departments. Software developers are not insurance experts. A great deal of time is wasted learning about insurance instead of increasing technical skills. A lot of time is also spent on procedural drivel like time reporting and TPS reports. *** Biggest Con *** and most obvious is sub-standard pay. Starting salaries are a joke, annual raises are meager, promotional raises are still low. Expect 20% below average. Benefits are average.