A relatively non-stressful development environment good for beginning a career in technology - Developer II Applied Systems Employee Review

3.0
28 Mar 2015
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

+ Industry leader + The company is growing, so plenty of room for personal career growth + Surprisingly talented development teams (for the most part) considering geographical location + Willing to hire out of school + Agile development philosophy + Fairly relaxed for a development environment + Good benefits package + Work from home once per week

Cons

- Not everyone you're working for/with/under values your opinion - Development salaries are well below the norm - Starting tester and starting programmer salaries are pretty much equal - Salary growth is minimal for most, developers will likely never make a tech industry standard - No effort to balance existing employee salaries when raising starting salary - Flagship products lack early direction, forcing reactive development effort - Working with a team that cares can be hit or miss - Management/HR is slow to react to under-performing employees

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5.0
1 Jun 2026
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Pros

Well known within the space and lots of opportunities.

Cons

Certain sales roles are limiting

1.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Appears to be an innovative company from the outside. Lots of access to customers and research. Strong upper management push for new tech initiatives. New CEO might help. He just started.

Cons

There is a hierarchy of UX designers with titles that separate them in skills and respect in the org. I was not allowed to really contribute or engage and was actively silenced because of my title as Sr., not being a Lead or Principles UX designer. This is not a healthy or how UX works. However, this may have been the EXLynx team specifically. The product team holds disproportionate control over UX decisions, including managing UX staff directly. I found the environment hostile to UX professionals joining new. The UX org has 5 hierarchical tiers UX including UX management, which creates significant bottlenecks. I came in with 15 years of experience and after two months - I was unable to do my job because of the harassment from a fellow designer.

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