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
2.0
Jun 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Work From Home Great Co-workers Always busy Stable company for now I have loved my job itself over the past 20 years and the people I have worked one on one with. When I started many many years ago the culture and energy was amazing.

Cons

20 years ago we had 3-5 VPs and lots of people actually doing the work. Today there seems to be more Sr VPs, VPs, Directors, CEOs, CTOs, Presidents and 6 figure Sr management than there are people actually working. Every time all these idea guys get hired they create them a new role and they blaze a trail of destruction. When this falls flat, they mass fire the peons actually doing the work and hire more upper management. An area was not making enough money...so they fired most of the testers, almost half the developers, POs, all the scrum masters had been let go by this point already and another idea guy came onboard. Then when the software could not keep up with demand after tripling everyone's workload - they fired just about all the workers in that area. They brag about how they are making money hand over fist, add more management and stiff the regular employees when it comes to pay and benefits. They do the bare minimum and tell us how lucky we are to work here. They change job titles and then the new hires are in India where pay and benefits are less. 20 years ago none of this was even conceivable. We had job security - today unless you are upper management - you have no job security. None. They want everyone filling out surveys telling them how great they are and employees are terrified of telling the truth or just ignore them. I love the company I hired into - since Kellner retired it's a different place. The first new CEO after him was a nightmare, killed the culture and he even held an all hands meeting asking everyone to post positive Glassdoor reviews. The newest one seems like a really great and smart guy, he is very likeable - but when it comes down too it, most of the new people he has brought on board have created an environment that is day to day stressful and scary. Take things with a grain of salt you hear from of most of the new SVPs and especially the CTO (another example of a new position created for more Sr management.) Management that the employees trusted that tried to rally for employees being treated unfairly and find common ground, just ended up getting let go unexpectedly.

1.0
Mar 10, 2025

Run Away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I enjoyed some of the team members I was able to work with

Cons

One of the most toxic environments I have ever seen. Senior leadership is incredibly toxic (racist, misogynistic, etc.). It felt like an actual case study of all the things you are not supposed to do in terms of company culture and how to handle issues that are raised within the workplace. I think some of HR tries to help, but the ones in leadership roles that get the say are only there to protect the company. I also was not fired, so that is not where this review is coming from, i chose to resign and leave based on how bad it was. Do not believe whatever they say to you in the interview - there are better companies out there to work for.

1.0
Jan 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home positions; Large company; Good FMLA and benefits

Cons

Managers are only required to talk to you twice a year; You could easily go days/weeks without assignments or anyone telling you what to priorize; when you do get time with managers, they are always distracted and don't really listen to you. Upper management seems to have a "bro culture". When invited to company events, you'll easily point out the executives because they will all be doing their own thing and expecting the low class workers to leave them alone. Upper management regularly travels, drinks, and parties with no shame. They have no shame in showing off their new cars and constantly having them in the background of Zoom meetings...just contanstly reminding everyone that they are superior to you.

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