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Worst Experience of My Life - Anonymous employee Applied Imagination Employee Review

1.0
14 Feb 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I left the company before I moved to Atlanta to work there permanently.

Cons

I accepted a position with this company under the title "Front End Developer with PHP". The ad posted focused primarily on front end skills, I was interviewed based on my front end experience, and I took a skills assessment that focused exclusively on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development. I was told before I accepted the position that the PHP portion was mostly focused on supplementing template development and light work like fixing broken forms and plugins. On my first project I was given the task of developing a PHP-based backend using their custom, in house content managment system, building out the user system and components, and writing all of the MySQL queries. This clearly falls well outside the scope of front end development and the work I agreed to do at the salary I accepted. When I asked management if this was standard, I was told that 'the way we do things here is kind of peculiar' and subsequently released from the company. During my interview, the manager informed me that all of the managers there are experienced developers themselves, which is why I find it hard to believe that they do not understand the difference between a front end developer, a back end developer, and a full stack developer. You can't claim experience and ignorance at the same time.

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5.0
9 Jan 2023
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Pros

Super positive attitude. Everyone is up beat about getting work done which makes working on projects fun. The projects are varied and usually pretty interesting. They are also super dedicated to getting you out of work by 5 which is great for work life balance. Overall great place to work.

Cons

It's a small business, so some of the processes aren't fully flushed out yet, but they do work on them every week to improve them. The vacation time is a little light IMO

2.0
18 Jun 2024
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Pros

- Remote work - Nice people

Cons

- No transparency to the employees on how the business is going - Work here if you are mid to late career (Not good for early career employees from career growth and benefits perspective). - You might have to work with nasty clients and probably you will not get appreciated even if you go extra mile - No transparency on performance reviews

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