Great stable company, nice people - Anonymous employee Applied Systems Employee Review

5.0
Mar 30, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you like stability and being part of a successful company you can't do much better than Applied. They are the best at what they do and they've got a solid vision for continued growth. The technology group is going through some Agile transitional pains but recent focus on quality and some new blood in the organization have yielded a lot of improvements. Company is very dedicated to its employees and retention - rare to see so many 20, 25, and 30 year anniversaries at a software company.

Cons

Technologically, not very cutting-edge but mostly because the insurance industry isn't very cutting edge and is thus slow to accept change. Probably not the most attractive company for fresh college grads who want to work with the latest and greatest - still lots of VB .NET and manual QA jobs. Also 30+ years of history means there's still some pockets of political resistance to new ideas and technologies - sometimes you have to work to get past the stagnation.

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Cons

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1.0
May 6, 2026
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Pros

The teammates that I worked with were generally really great. Decent opportunity for learning

Cons

The benefits were not great, 3 year vesting to get a 401k match, insurance was sub par, time off was below average. In addition to this the management team is having a lot of turnover along with getting rid of people systematically (or what feels targeted). This is following some acquisitions that could have been great but because the teams are all operating in silos with what feels like no cohesive direction from the senior leadership. The products that are being sold are very old feeling/looking with no real changes on the horizon. Pair this with high level executive leadership changes that are pointing to a potential sale of the company which likely will come with more changes and loss of employment.

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