Manipulative and unempathetic culture - werkgeversreview People and Recruiting bij Applied Intuition

1,0
20 mei 2024
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Pluspunten

Applied has a lot of cash in the bank and has managed to attract a good team to drive a sales-driven company

Minpunten

Applied has somehow selected and pushed managers to create a toxic culture that lacks empathy and is focused on "speed above all things". There are many managers and HR that seem not to see reports as human beings but simply tools to be used. I've seen people suffering from acute health issues not given the space to properly recover and made to feel guilty that they were not performing as before. When engineers surface issues about their manager or the culture, HR's first priority is about protecting the company first and readily throws engineering reports under the bus instead of dealing with problematic managers that have been at the company for far too long. Senior leadership frequently lies about why people leave and our compensation being top of market to maintain morale. In the offers we communicate to candidates, they're made to sound really big at the start to mislead candidates into thinking it's a great offer without properly walking them through the tax implications, liquidity periods, our short employee-unfriendly exercise windows, and the fact that your exercise cost is all with post-tax money. Please math it out yourself to evaluate the offer before accepting it. Many that don't, regretted it. After the Series E raise, many hardworking individuals that have been at the company 2 years or more have been leaving the company given the toxic and taxing culture. If you are considering joining the company, do your due diligence on the teams you're joining with people you trust to give a balanced perspective and the truth on which teams have high attritions and toxic managers. But frankly, at this stage it's not worth it. You're simply a pawn to be exploited by the people with long tenures. This company is fundamentally deeply transactional as well with little psychological safety. If you are in need of a green card or on visas, avoid at all costs unless you are truly desperate.

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5,0
19 jun 2026
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Pluspunten

- high growth opportunity - good business directions - products

Minpunten

- work hours - intense work environment

3,0
6 apr 2026
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Pluspunten

- Excellent business development strategy. Constant new customers and projects for engineers. If you wanted to run your own startup one day, you could do a lot worse than learn from Applied's strategies. - Fast-pace, challenging work for engineers. Very little abstraction means you touch most parts of the projects you work on. Good learning experiences. - Talented group of engineers to work with (see con about lack of seniority). - No-nonsense culture (at least at the start, see cons).

Minpunten

- Company has never learned to plan in my years here. Constantly making the mistake of compensating for lack of planning with crunching engineers. Attrition numbers tell the story. - Chasing best available business opportunities has led to its current success. It also means lack of focus and concerningly immature products given their age. - Shockingly does not grow comp with elevation to leadership positions. Lowballs new hires, then expects the existing equity to be enough reason to take on drastically more responsibility and give up technical work. - Great no-bullshit culture (drop BS meetings; technical need leads the way, not politics; avoid partisan politics at work, etc.) is degrading from the top. - New-grad heavy teams. Dearth of senior people to learn from is concerning. Good reason for new grads to move on quickly, or risk building bad habits. - Constantly uses valuation success in funding rounds to justify stunting comp growth. After 1-2 years you understand a truth: the company might be succeeding, but what does that have to do with you? - At some point, you learn enough from the firefighting. But the firefighting does not stop.

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