Pros
I was part of an acquisition and that opened up new opportunities for growth within Applied.
Cons
Regardless of how many years you have been there or what awards you have been given, the company cares only about how much money they are or going to make. Many times we started working on a new product and spent many hours with customers in focus groups and partnerships to collect feedback and start creating a new product to only turn around and acquire a company that already has this product but have out dated tech. Then they focus on trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and try to integrate directly in Epic and other products. These integrations are never done the "right way" even though Applied promotes to their employees to always "do the right thing". Lastly Applied rarely expands feature past phase 1. It rarely gets to phase 2.