Applied Systems reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

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56% positive business outlook

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3.0
Aug 28, 2015

Product Development

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Relatively flexible working environment. Casual dress, okay working environment. Decent coworkers. Once you're in, you've got a job unless you mess up catastrophically or you choose to leave.

Cons

Management likes to write checks that prod dev then has to cash, and there's a breakdown in communication between the people who draw up the features and the devs who have to create them. Dev isn't allocated enough time to defects or tech debt, which leaves us in a constant state of crisis with our larger clients. Agile isn't well-understood from the top level, and there's a lot of burnout among the developers. Employees are often jaded and cynical about "the way things are" and even though they would love to see things change for the better, are skeptical that they will. The salary is quite low compared to market value. There's very little positive feedback. Favoritism is absolutely a thing, but you can make that work in your favor if you know how to.

3.0
Aug 24, 2015

Good Team Environment, Low Pay

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Pros

Easy Commute Free Coffee Little get-togethers and weekly events (bagel day, casual Friday) Great co-workers and team atmosphere is most departments Clean workplace You are typically given all the necessary tools to do your job Customers are typically appreciative of good work, even if co-workers and management are not

Cons

Equality does not exist from department to department Regardless of quality of work / time with the company, the cap of your department is the cap, meaning some employees with 20+ years experience doing great work get paid (sometimes significantly) less than someone just coming in to a different department Inept HR department Micro-management to the point it feels like baby-sitting in some departments Christmas / Performance bonuses are non-existent Raises are minimal in some departments Starting wages can have a HUGE variance that has nothing to do with experience in the field (Talking 20-30% higher pay for outside hires from non-Insurance and/or non-Tech fields, vs internal promotions) More upper management hired every month, it seems like

4.0
Aug 21, 2015
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Pros

Been with the company almost 20 years. The people you work with are great. There is flexible work hours within my department. What is expected is well communicated.

Cons

Pay is low but that is to be expected with where we are located. Upper management has no clue what we do on a daily basis. We are constantly understaffed, which puts lots of pressure because same level of service is still expected.

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