process engineer

engineer

developer ii

senior process engineer

quality engineer

Applied Medical

I got hired as a full time infant and toddler teacher, but I began with two year olds so my typical day was supporting that room from 8:30-5:30. I believe I learned that their philosophy, as hard as they tried to apply it, does not work all the time and there is a reason it is not common. Although it has strong qualities and strengths, there are areas in which children need different approaches or support other than what they claim their philosophy is. Management to me felt extremely controlling. I came in feeling confident because I know what I am capable of and have always received amazing feedback as I had more freedom than I did here and was respected as a teacher with original thoughts and ideas. Everything I introduced or attempted to introduce was shut down. Workplace culture is again very corporate controlled and has no consistency, no one is on the same page which led to me being extremely confused and discouraged, and yes I brought this to their attention, but essentially brushed me off and fired me with no explanation. Although their philosophy was new to me I tried my hardest to adjust, but was shut down and discouraged every time. I took a step back and observed as every “leader” here was telling me to do something different. Once I expressed how confused I was, it was not discussed. Instead I was let go with no warning or explanation other than I don’t seem to understand their philosophy or something along those lines, which correct I did not, but I also did not feel supported or respected as a teacher. My first week or two were the only weeks I enjoyed at this workplace as I got to explore a new environment and get to no everyone, after that it was difficult to work with so much inconsistency and an unorganized team. I gave my thoughts and ideas, but after being discouraged I took a step back and observed until out of the blue, I’m fired. Although I understand they are a new center, they should not have opened yet, they are extremely unprepared and claim to be supportive of you when in reality they are not. I have had way better directors and admin than I witnessed at this center. I value a director that works with me and my ideas rather than step in every single thing I would attempt to do or shut me down. 

Not the worst place to work, but not the best either. Generally, the great facilities and perks, awesome people, numerous learning opportunities, and chill work environment are offset by mediocre to poor pay, questionable management, and old-fashioned company policies. Get a few years of experience here right after you graduate college, but don't stay. Jump to better paying, greener pastures later.

Pros:
Excellent work-life balance, the work atmosphere is super chill and most people leave right at 5PM. Modern facilities and office spaces. Great people, and a lot of them are young. They hire new grads more easily than most other companies. I doubt any other company has the caliber of work basketball league that Applied has, and they have a lot of other sports leagues as well. Nice gym and athletic classes. Their kitchen makes great food, and sells it for cheap. Vertical integration means that there are plenty of opportunities to gain experience in various manufacturing processes. Lots of extracurricular training classes through their education department, so it's a great resume builder for young engineers.

Cons:
Compensation is poor (barely acceptable for R&D, but process and manufacturing engineers make considerably less). Inexperienced management that makes questionable knee-jerk decisions, leading to more work/stress for engineers, throwing out years of work, and wasting money. Engineering teams don't emphasize analysis enough and would rather do trial and error engineering with a ton of mindless testing. Zero investment in retaining employees as they'd rather hire new grads for cheap, so there are few experienced higher level engineers who stay around longer than 3-4 years to provide guidance. Stuck in the stone age technologically, engineers are assigned desktop computers. No intention to allow a hybrid work schedule for engineers post covid, and won't even allow flex hours. Worst of all, your experience will vary wildly based on your team, or even your manager within your team as people are not always treated equally. I got lucky and had a manager that treated me well, but I could see dysfunction everywhere else around me and many of my coworkers despised their jobs.


If you want to learn a LOT in your first couple of years out of college, you found the PERFECT company to work for!! 

Applied is a vertically-integrated company, which means you get to see and work on everything from design to finished product, machining, compliance and in-house decision making. You get to work a lot and on very different projects. You will never be bored! Also, the cherry on top is that you can build a resume in 2 years with accomplishments that other companies cannot offer even after 10 years of working there.

HOWEVER, there are a lot of issues with working at this company that I would like to see changed for its own good. 

First, the company culture, although appealing, young and friendly, seems like a start-up. This, I believe, makes it difficult to foster an atmosphere of professionalism (which can thoroughly lack at times) and for this to be excused as being a "family" mentality. 

Second, there seems to be quite a lot of nepotism, which in my opinion is not acceptable for such a large company. I have witnessed this cause senior management make illogical decisions and justification for actions/or lack of action due to some form of underlining fear of upsetting someone related to the executive's family members or family friends (who are all management).

Third, the pay and benefits at Applied are far below industry standard practices. The starting pay is attractive for the junior members of the work force, but unfortunately, it will stay well beneath average pay at competing companies. I think the benefits are lousy because time off is limited.  Actually using time off can be frowned upon and using it is seen more of a courtesy if you are in your manager's-manager's good graces. I personally had a gracious experience in this area, however, I have witnessed numerous situations in which employees were sort of terrified to take their days off.

I have had many roles at Applied over many years here. In my experience, my team has felt like an extension of my family, and in general, our teams work very well together. I have worked in several departments at Applied, and I have learned a lot from my previous managers. No workplace is perfect, and there is always room for improvement. However, I can say that Applied genuinely takes an interest in treating their team members well and helping them progress and grow in their careers. I enjoy having the freedom to implement what I feel would work best for the team, even including the technologies we use or the way we implement processes. Applied has an open-door policy which helps provide transparency and open communication with various levels of the organization. I can honestly say I feel supported by my management team.
Applied is a fast-growing company, and with that, we experience growing pains, but that also means that we continue to grow steadily. While other companies let employees go when the market gets hard or slows down, Applied will endure and protect the jobs/careers of their team members. The senior management team is very transparent about how they plan for tough times during the better times, which allows the company to endure challenges many others cannot. I have seen this personally on many occasions. Applied has a vertically integrated business model, which means change happens quickly across all departments when needed. This ensures that we stay current with the techniques, products, and technologies we implement. I'm saddened by reviews from others that may not have had great experiences. I'm positive that these are isolated cases, and in general, people tend to leave bad reviews rather than good experiences. I hope that my comments provide more clarity for others looking at Applied as their next team.

The leadership and company management at Applied Medical will pit your own work/life balance against yourself, leaving you in an between a rock and a hard place of working overtime to manage to pay bills, or not working overtime to struggle and be seen as a lesser employee from every supervisor or manager within the company.
Aside from that, the company will never fail to sugar coat every situation to coax you into working later hours, and longer days, with promises of catchup checks, and bonuses which never appear annually.
Management is so unprofessionally handled that they make up for it at the expense of the employees, meaning continually changing  scheduling for optimized production, being pressured to stay late to meet impossible deadlines for "the company needs" which seems to be the lead driving factor promoting a unbelievably unhealthy and unfair work atmosphere, which makes for an extremely stressful work environment that is plagued with nepotism and cronyism.
Communication is the biggest lacking factor with this company, from management to employees, or even employee to employee, as english is NOT the first language, and not the standard within the workplace, making it difficult to explain or teach anyone properly, thus creating a lower standard for production and quality of work
extremely demanding and stressful atmosphere for the lowest pay you can make in this field, the work is easy but the people leading it are incredibly vain and uncaring towards the ones doing the work.
10 / 10 would not recommend working here.

Ok I am going to be very honest& tell the truth about this company. A typical day is getting up at 2am to get in by 4am. The shifts are 4 to 12:30 or 12:30 to 9pm. 
I used to work at the las vegas site which is poorly managed. I never worked in medical production before& I never recived proper training from the beginning. Favortism has been there since day one, half of the people who work there are related or friends from california, all from the same country, even a married couple work there. When one of them miss work, they all miss work. 

Only people from this country which I will not name get promoted or get to learn the most important operations. Many people have all ready left before me because of this. Many employees who are not from the country talk often about the favortism and speical treatment, but they are scared to speak out publicly. 

Management dosen't really care& they tell you something different everyday. No real leadership just lots of breaks& gossip in the break room. There is no culture at applied medical, it seems they don't care back in california what goes on in las vegas. 

I learned two operations, while others from a certain country learned a lot more, no good freason why. Boring job in a ice cold room in a dirty building that never gets cleaned in a bad area where people try to steal your car while you working. The hardest part of the job is getting motivated to come to work where you see management playing favorites every day.

The best part of the job was the pay, which is good for nevada state. But that was not enough to stay

I am happy that I left, I hope they change the way they do things& I would not recommend 

I am in IT, I worked at TECH (ISPs) companies previous to Applied.  If you join an IT unit at Applied and have previous experience with a larger Tech based company you will be unimpressed with the ITs skill level.  There are people running departments with no experience in that particular field.  Its embarrassing how unskilled some of these folks are.

The management is typically young and un-experienced.  There are some good people there but the management is out of their element.

Management on my team never replied to emails and is very dismissive regarding known issues.  There fix is to reboot the device rather than pursuing with the Vendor.

There is no sense of urgency in regards to completing service requests/trouble tickets.  Every issue was put off until someone became irate.  People talk like they know or have skill in a tech area but are completely unskilled and a hack at best.

My first day was a complete joke.  I was not given any direction, was not told to complete any of the 1st day training modules, etc..  I basically was a secretary for the one guy who had access to everything.  Very insulting.  You will be bored.. the work day feels like a week.  You start to forget some of your skills.  If you dont use it you lose it.  They will not utilize your skillset properly.

Applied medical has probably one of the worst cultures I’ve ever seen. Everyone is on insane time constraints and it forces everyone to push on other teams where it isn’t needed. You’re constantly told to get such and such done by an unfeasible date. This makes tensions between teams high, forces other teams to push back, and god forbid if you miss a deadline, you will have upper management screaming at you even if there is nothing you can do about it. All this creates finger pointing to the worst that I’ve experienced. Make sure you get everything in writing, because if you can’t prove this person said such and such, you’re out. The turnover rate is the highest that I’ve ever seen at any company I’ve worked with in the past. My team alone, in the last 18 months, has had nearly a 50% turn over rate. They cannot hire people faster than people leave. Part of the reason is that the pay is laughable compared to the competition. When I was hired on (as is with everyone who is hired on) you’re promised and told that there is a bonus catch up check each quarter to make up for the salary you can make elsewhere . That hasn’t happened in 2.5 years, and with the way things are going, won’t ever happen again. Half of upper management is family, so the nepotism is palpable. If you’re on the job hunt, do not work gere

Unorganized and terrible company. They promise to develop your career, but keep you on the same close to minimum wage salary as they add more and more responsibilities. Kind of sad to see that they are being awarded so many awards for diversity, equity, and inclusion when the majority of their employees of color are struggling to make living needs in the area. Their benefits for their production teams are being cut off more and more every year while their corporate higher ups get to enjoy all the health and wellness center benefits. Funny that they promote all these events when the majority of the team can’t even make it because they are working like robots during those  scheduled times. Inconsistent pay with on and off overtime and reviews every 15 months that will get you some cents if you’re lucky. If you’re an entry level associate, they will have you train in a role for over a year before even promoting or raising your salary. Again, with several cents added of compensation if lucky. Most medical device companies in the area receive bonuses, this is one of the only ones I know that stopped years ago. The list could continue , but I think this is enough for now. 

Only guy that works in the building is related to two other employees and they work all 3 to the max while supers sit around on the phone all day. management cover for themselves while the other comes in late as neither really make an effort to train or help people. The receiving guy works the whole truck alone without any assistance and the general manager allows the supervisors and their peeps to spread gossip and he actively joins in. 

 Many passive aggressive morning meetings where the supervisors complain about employees for their lack of effort on the supervisor job descriptions (trucks and inventory). Compliment and encourage speed and cutting corners till either supervisor is reprimanded. Rumor Mill, they love rumors, and it seems to be actively encouraged. boast nepotism and hiring family (mainly the supervisors family members). A few of the employees work harder than they should while other exploit that work. 

supers are looking for friends not workers. 

The hardest part of the job is maintaining the mental of a bad supervisor while her sister covers for her. Otherwise, the job is easy.



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