Applied Systems reviews

This company likes to pick up fresh grads, pay them next to nothing, and then give no raises. Out of the 5 years working there, I had two years with embarassingly low raises, two with no raise, and one job switch/promotion. I got sick of it and left. People either stay 1-2 years to get a little experience and get out (resulting in a bad product since the work is constantly being done by green employees) or they stay forever and aren't particularly thrilled to be there either. The first level of management tries to support you, but there are tons of layers of middle management and it's horrifying to see CEO cronies waltz in as SVPs when no one else sees a dime. The access road is awful and has been for years, they promise every year it'll get fixed and nothing happens.

-Work load is not balanced. -On-boarding and training of new hires (when I started) was the worse experience of starting with a new company I have ever had. No training other than watching web videos and then thrown onto client projects without having ever seen a project in work, methodology, or been trained in any way. -Travel isn't regionalized (many employees travel coast to coast) and travel time (often 8+ hours per day) isn't counted as 'time worked', so if you put in an 8 our day with a client and traveled 11 hours home afterwards and you only put in 6 hours the next day you are forced to take PTO for the remaining two hours. Seriously, this happened to me. -There are huge gaps between projects and employees are hounded about 'billable hours' without being anything to 'bill'. -When employees ask for direction or areas that management feels they need to improve they are given none and yet during review time they are seriously penalized for areas they didn't even know they were weak in. -Management is out of the loop with their employees, they don't ask questions or get clarification, they just act based on what others have told them. -Worked here over 3 years, no raise, don't see one coming anytime soon.