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Applicable Limited Reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(29 total reviews)

Alan Baldwin

90% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Applicable Limited has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 29 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applicable Limited employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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29 reviews
1.0
22 Apr 2020

Ignore the fake reviews

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The technical staff that have managed to survive more than 1 year are the only saving grace. Competent, willing to teach, and they deserve better. They have a temporary kettle.

Cons

Be prepared for some of the most toxic, controlling, and hilariously incompetent low/mid level management. If you like it when your managers (you will have more than one) fill your day with meetings about having other meetings, and then having to play catch-up on all the work you missed, you will like it here. If you like constantly being asked for your input (you will hear the phrase "if you have any concerns, just call it out" ad nauseam), but always having it disregarded, you will like it here. If you like having your KPI's (affecting performance/salary review) being tied to achieving certifications that you must complete outside of work hours (unpaid of course), you will like it here. If you like raises that don't even meet inflation, you will like it here. If you like dangerously high turnover in your office (you will be asked to do the work of two employees), you will like it here. If you like to have a 20 minute meeting about your workload before you're allowed to leave for a family emergency, you will like it here. They DO have a kettle though. This is one of those companies that teaches you exactly how an office shouldn't be run, which is maybe the most valuable experience I got from my short time here. Whenever I'm faced with a tough decision in my current role, I always think "what would Applicable do?". Then I do the opposite of that. Also check out the fake reviews. Look at this, they didn't even try with this one: "Awesome" Current Employee - Anonymous Employee Positive Outlook Approves of CEO I have been working at Applicable Limited full-time Pros Friendly colleagues. Active social scene. Challenging work. Cons Not the best choice of coffee.

1.0
7 Oct 2020

Unethical and unprofessional

Recommend
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Pros

Engineering staff are the real talent

Cons

Staff treated with contempt and disposable. Management blame their own poor decisions on NTT, the new owners. Made the entire office redundant then started rehiring after 3 months with newly invented job titles. Pay at the bottom of the scale. Abusive management culture led to a 80% staff turnover before closure.

1.0
21 Mar 2022
Recommend
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Pros

None. Nada. Nothing. Yes, seriously.

Cons

Ah where to begin? First, I feel, a warning: this company will destroy your mental health. That was my (and many many others) experience. From the very gatekeepers of company management who groomed an abusive senior/middle tier through a combination of dishonesty and unprofessionalism by forcing people to leave and covering up their complaints, only keeping their own jobs through what everyone knew were inappropriate relationship with upper management and gaslighting those that had left and could no longer defend themselves. A senior/middle management team who sincerely believed everyone else should work until after midnight due to the strategy of no rehiring for at least 6 months to "prove" the position was still needed, doubling or even tripling some peoples workloads and treating almost everyone with robotic contempt from his ivory tower. A senior/middle management trait those free work trips abroad and not even doing half the work so desperately needed, and dropping anyone who dared voice a professional opinion onto performance measures until they left. In their own words in a company-wide email, they took "advantage" of the Government furlough scheme, knowing would force some to quit because they couldn't afford the wage reduction and placing everyone who remained under intolerable and irresponsible pressure. Apart from management of course. They protected their own and would not assist when there were too few to do the work. And training? Little more than youtube videos, only to be done during personal time whilst management put themselves on courses. They even made an entire office redundant, only to rehire the least productive after three months and a day, with new job titles and widely agreed that avoided a very obvious employment law breach. As another review highlighted, 80% of the company didn't leave because they found something better, working zero hours contracts at Burger King would be better than this. If I could remove the stain of Applicable from my resume I would. In fact, appearing unemployed would be preferable. Of course, your experience may be different but 80% of staff leaving...80%...and all senior/middle management did was congratulate themselves on the recruitment...sickening.

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