Pros: - Smartest group of people I've ever worked with: it feels like I'm constantly learning, across all divisions. - Hard tech: we work on hard problems, with interesting tech. - Customer driven: coming from an R&D company, it's great to see how much impact our products are having for our customers. - Growth: the company is growing so fast, the only way to adapt is to grow with it. New opportunities, products, and teams regularly open up, so it never feels like you're stuck. Internal teams also operate like their own mini-startups, so you will learn how to build products, scale teams, and successfully ship to customers. - High autonomy + bottom-up culture. - Feedback culture: you will continuously seek feedback from peers, managers, or anyone else in the company.

Cons: Performance-based culture: Related to the feedback culture above, you don't have to wait 6 months or 1 year to know how you are performing. But it also means you have to pull your own weight to contribute to the success of the company. 50 hours is not for everyone. Do not work here if you expect a 9-to-5 job. You can easily get the impression that everyone is working all the time, when in reality there is always someone working. There is a strong emphasis on being self-regulated.

Pros: Applied has extremely talented and friendly engineers who are all highly driven by what they work on. It's great to be in person and get to learn and collaborate with such motivated and smart people. I've learned so much about the automotive industry and engineering practices.

Cons: Applied requires you to have or develop really good time management and prioritization skills. Since the business and the tech move so quickly, you can feel overwhelmed by the amount of work that you're trying to take on. You learn quickly that this doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be doing everything all the time, but rather that you have to be able to make quick prioritization decisions off the cuff and manage your own time.

Pros: If you come and work here, you will work with lots of smart people. The company and the business are doing really well. The management is intentional about making changes for the long-term health of the business.

Cons: - If you are not able to regulate yourself, you will have a hard time adjusting to the pace. - The company is global, meaning that the bar is higher for quality of products and therefore output.