Applied Systems Reviews

Cons

Increased focus and plan on internal costs.

Cons

- no slide's at work!

Cons

Lack of communication throughout entire company, poor management (Director) skills, failure to include employees with all the details or meetings pertinent to job.

Cons

depending on the task, it can be moonotonous

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Compensation continues to be a challenge. The longer you work here, the harder it seems to be to earn market competitive wages, but that's probably true in most places.

Cons

Lazy management, unfair practices, hate to innovate

Cons

Growing sales organization so some movement of territories.

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I quit without notice because of workplace violations at the Supervisory, Managerial and Executive Management Staff level. If a current or former Employee has experienced sexual, threatening, religious persecution, mail theft, civil right workplace violations, then please contact the U.S. Attorney General. I filed a detail permanent record with them.

If you enjoy the following, then this is the company for you:

- An Employee asked me if I was having sex or at least oral sex with my fiancé. This same Employee gave a female vibrator to another Employee in my presence as well as others at Applied as a birthday gift.
- Middle Management threatened me when I wanted to go to HR about my Supervisor.
- Lower Management threatened me with the following statement: "Do not ever make me look stupid in front of a client again." Willis their largest Epic client had already exited the conference room. She was asked a question by the Client and replied. Client asked for my professional opinion and I gave it. This same Lower Management Employee threatened me with me losing my job in 2013. I left Product Management because of her.
- Upper Management threatened me in my final annual review in another department with the following: "XXX and I have been friends for over 20 years." She continued my review and defamed my character in it. I walked out of the company without notice.
- Upper Management told me that she promoted another Employee to Supervisor because she just returned from having a baby and needed a break. Guess you have to have a baby to get a promotion and "a break". I guess no one else in the entire organization had more knowledge or experience than her.
- A client sent me a tin of cookies as a thank you at Christmas and Management stole them and placed them on the common department food table. I found out because the client contacted me because they never received a Happy Holidays card and personal thank you note written inside. I was told by Management they did it because of department morale.
- I worked over 60 hours a week on a Willis issue which is against the State of Ilinois Employment law. The client sent me a thank you email stating I was invaluable to them and Applied broke the law. I tried to delegate and was told that only I could resolve the issue in a timely manner. Begging me to do it for them. They bypassed Support, Escalation and Quality Assurance to come to A Product Designer for a Support issue.
- I was a Senior Product Designer in Product Management but performed the additional following positions: Developer, Quality Assurance Analyst, Support Technician, Trainer, Supervisor, Financial Consultant, Product Manager, Sales Account Manager, Custom Report Writer, Data Conversion Analyst, Documentation Technician and Escalation Technician. I received benefits as a Product Designer but nothing for the other positions. When traveling, Trainers get Fridays off. I got none of the perks of the Training Department when traveling on a Sunday.
- Attended dinners with clients in the evenings and had to attend their National Convention because Management was unavailable. Didn't get paid for these additional duties or compensation time and my salary was not at the Product Design Supervisory level. Enjoy doing Management's job without the high salary. If you are single and your direct report has a family, then you must do their job for them after hours. They must pick up their children by 6:00pm was her response. Upper Management loves to leave at 11:00am on a Friday because they are "on call" for the weekend when the rest of their team does not get the same privileges.

I sent all violations to Applied Systems, Inc. via a certified letter and Reid French's response through their General Council was they have no additional comments in regards to an internal audit. I posted a review and their comment was that I was the only employee who has ever experienced workplace violations.

Cons

Too much focus on one product

Cons

None really unique to Applied.