Applied Systems reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(745 total reviews)
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Taylor Rhodes

72% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Applied Systems has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 745 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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745 reviews
1.0
Mar 5, 2013

No hope

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I'm astounded by these recent glowing reviews. They are either for the wrong company, or someone was bribed to refute the other experiences nearly word for word. If they are honest and legit, I will eat my hat. As for pros, it's hard to get fired, let's be honest. Very hard. This can be seen as a plus but also a minus as employees doing poor to very little work remain on staff for long periods of time. There is an in-house cafeteria but with 30 min lunches, you brown bag it or eat on location anyway. Work balance is decent, no weekends or odd hours most of the time.

Cons

Raises are extremely low ($250 to 500) to none at all. Starting pay is amazingly low. When the subject is brought up employees are told it's because of the area, as though your talent varies upon location. Speaking of location, it's in the middle of nowhere, close to nothing good, often referred to as "the ghetto". Breaks do not exist. 30 mins for lunch is all you get. The walking path around the building is just a tease, since no one has time to walk on it anyway. Rewards are 10 dollar gift cards for EXCEPTIONAL work. You heard me, 10 dollars, perhaps 1-2 times a year. Meetings about the employee satisfaction surveys resulted in morale being lower than ever, with management basically saying "we don't care". Some departments were told there is zero chance for promotions or advancement unless you quit to go elsewhere. What you start doing will be the same until you leave. It doesn't get better it gets harder. It's like if you started flipping burgers at Mcdonalds, and later were promoted to manager, only you still did all the duties of a burger flipper in addition to management duties. There are NO perks for being experienced. Most of the experience has fled anyway so that's a moot point. Changes to reviews document every conceivable aspect of working (being late, sick time, staying late, covering shifts, you name it) and are posted in 'scoreboard' form to pit against your co-workers. Veiled threats are emailed on a daily basis about workload waiting, calls holding, and "take this call or ELSE". Workload is demanding, constant, and numbing. Employees must request a pass from existing work, to do other required work. Depending on department, work experience may not even be helpful. Some products written and designed in 20+ year old technology which functions illogically and never improved.

1.0
Aug 10, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great place for a recent college grad good place to learn

Cons

wow, where to start. 1. Sr. Management has low integrity--lack of honesty, treat employees AND customers poorly. Lies lies and more lies. 2. VP of Primary Sales has never sold anything, anywhere. Former CEO (Jim Kellner) also never sold anything, anywhere. 3. Lots of "ideas" but no "vision". Ideas change regularly. 4. attitude of "what have you done for me today" 5. They lose more business out the back door than they have coming forward--this is because Applied over-promises and under-delivers. Management encourages deceptive sales tactics to win at all costs. 6. They train to belittle the competition. Sr. Management consistantly insults the competition publically.

1.0
Jan 25, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- It's easy to feel like the products are really helping people

Cons

If you aren't the kind of person that is willing to step on, manipulate or throw others under the bus to get ahead, you're going to hate it. Management is oblivious and uninterested. The work is boring and uninspiring, and you'll most likely be either micromanaged within an inch of your life or left completely to yourself to figure out everything. The workplace is homogenous to the point of ridiculousness, and is neither warm nor welcoming. The pay is low and the benefits are few and paltry. The 'fun' events in the office feel forced and unpleasant with all the perpetual tension and lack of teamwork and communication between departments.

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