- Micromanagement: they hire senior engineers and don’t trust them to do the job. Instead, you spend most of your time trying to clean up documentation and slides to impress customers.
- They use the profiles of employees that worked at Deep tech or prominent companies before to lure customers and eventually they’re not execution heavy.
- Reviews: they do monthly reviews. Your review can go from excellent with a star to lacking and probably on the way to get fired in 3 weeks because maybe a delivery went wrong and you’re just part of a broader team. Or because a senior manager didn’t like you for whatever reason
- Some managers are so arrogant and disrespectful people. They demean the engineers and keep pushing them as if they’re gonna motivate them to work. I was told from a senior manager, lead people by fear!!
- Work is intense, you don’t even get a thank you for the hours, but rather, “if you did a better job, we wouldn’t be here”. The management tries to find an escape goat to blame
- I worked for a year and never less than 60-70 hours a day with zero appreciation.
- Career ladder is a joke: managers get promoted and again demoted in 6 months. I have witnessed many demotions in one year, like never in any company I worked for before and I worked for 6 companies before Applied.
- The equity is not real. Don’t make them dazzle you with the fake numbers
- Advice: go to LinkedIn, look for their employees and check the tenure. The majority of the folks are around for less than a year or a couple of months.
- Products: I don’t know what they’re doing. They’re engaging with many companies and don’t have a roadmap for production.
- Very bad culture; people don’t like working here and are drained. I barely stopped somewhere to have a short talk with someone. Everybody wants to leave. Talked to many engineers and managers. They just are there coz they don’t yet have an alternative
