Applied Systems reviews

Sometimes it’s like we work for 2 companies. On the one hand this is an industry leading company that is well respected and growing with a strong CEO who genuinely cares about employee engagement. On the other hand, employees are very underpaid by industry standards, business areas do not collaborate or share with one another, communication is terrible and people are micromanaged by weak management. In the recent employee satisfaction survey, employee engagement was an area that was found to be lacking. Upper management has responded with all sorts of initiatives to remedy this situation. The problem is that they are relying on the managers to implement the improvements/changes. What they don’t realize is that it’s the managers that are the problem. You have smart people who want to work and you have a strong upper management team who want them to work and be happy and in between you have this glut of middle managers that have meeting after meeting, accomplishing nothing, micromanaging every aspect of our day and slowly sucking the souls out of employees until they leave. Of course, this is not all managers. But hint to the CEO, if you find a dysfunctional unit, look to the management. Pros - solid company, strong products, good co-workers

Great team of people to work with, management is improving but still disconnected from reality. Work life balance good, work from home flexibility in some departments but appears discretional. It could not have been all that bad, I worked there for a long time.