Applied Systems reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(747 total reviews)
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Taylor Rhodes

70% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Applied Systems has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 747 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applied Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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747 reviews
3.0
Mar 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

+ Industry leader + The company is growing, so plenty of room for personal career growth + Surprisingly talented development teams (for the most part) considering geographical location + Willing to hire out of school + Agile development philosophy + Fairly relaxed for a development environment + Good benefits package + Work from home once per week

Cons

- Not everyone you're working for/with/under values your opinion - Development salaries are well below the norm - Starting tester and starting programmer salaries are pretty much equal - Salary growth is minimal for most, developers will likely never make a tech industry standard - No effort to balance existing employee salaries when raising starting salary - Flagship products lack early direction, forcing reactive development effort - Working with a team that cares can be hit or miss - Management/HR is slow to react to under-performing employees

3.0
Feb 28, 2015

Good

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

the people are great, local to home, the work until lately was good.

Cons

management, compensation, career paths don't exist

3.0
Apr 11, 2014

Good place to start... don't get stuck.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will work with some really great people. There's definitely a sense of camaraderie. The day-to-day is really easy. It's a very easy job and very comfortable and very close to home. It's really easy to get really comfortable here. The products are actually kind of cool and offer value to the clients. Support does a great job. It's really easy to get a job here and to "fluff" your resume to move on to bigger and better things. Good job for right out of college or for someone who didn't finish college. Very stable company--isn't going anywhere, job security.

Cons

The corporate culture blows. All of upper management has all been there for like 20 years and they're very set in their ways. They're stuck on stupid things that don't matter. They're more concerned with making sure everything is exactly "by the book" than on the actual service / value that is being provided to the clients. (I was reprimanded several times by several different managers for being 3 minutes late to my shift or for browsing the Internet....) Supervisors are more like "babysitters" and it seems like that's the directive they receive from up top. There is an overwhelming sense that employees are not valued. If you don't like it... you're replaceable...so deal with it or leave. DEFINITELY not a place for a GEN Y to make a career of.

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