Applied Systems reviews

So overworked you can't help but bring your work home with you or worry about it when you are off the clock. If you take time off work it is a disaster when you come back to the office because little to no cross training. Cross training can't exist when everyone is too busy to help out but management won't hire more help. If you do a good job keeping afloat with your work duties you will only be given more but won't see an increase in your salary. Management will literally laugh in your face if you say you have too much on your plate or ask for a raise. Stress will literally make you sick working here. There is no budget for salary increases but there is a budget to hire in all the CEO's friends, give him a brand new office (when he is barely ever in house) and redo the bathrooms.

Gonna be honest... Pay is very low as compared to the industry. I negotiated my starting pay years ago, but was amazed at how little some people started at. Most moves from department to department are lateral. Even if you are told you will get a pay increase they will find a way to take it away in the end. I.E. a pay increase after an initial period in the new department, then at your yearly review you get nothing because you already had an increase this year. Departments pass work on to other departments as much as possible. Communication is not great, but not as bad as it was a few years ago. General work horse departments are understaffed, but the CEO hires another of his buddies from his last company as another new VP every few months. Then they all sit in the super happy office in Atlanta and commute to Chicago and stay in 5 star hotels, tell the whole company how much money we're making then hose the general staff out of raises. Most of us are wondering if the Atlanta office is working for the same company as were, judging from the Atlanta reviews on here, they are not, or they are putting something amazing in the water down there. You may notice an influx of positive reviews here lately...that's because management informed the whole company about this site and how they want the ratings to go up. Most of us are reading these and laughing.