Applied Materials reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(4,572 total reviews)
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85% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,572 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applied Materials employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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4.0
Feb 17, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good oportunities for growth Pay and benefits were pretty good Good intentions to divesify into solar and solidify lead in semi Great opportunity to change the game in semis with a focus on service (but don't thnk they will execute)

Cons

Lots of bureaucracy make it diffuclt to really get things done CFO is very powerful in the company, almost seems to be running it like a PE-owned biz Senior execs (corporate VP and above) have good risk-taking appetite, but mid-level management (MD to VP level) are not very business savvy and can not think through issues enough to take risk Disfucntional decision making (e.g. formal meetings where decisions are not made and then real decisions are made 1:1 where the real experts are not there to opine Stock not moving in 10+ years, CEO making +$10M/yr, other C-levels making $5M/yr -- where is accountability???

3.0
Feb 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are great. Its a really large company and there are many opportunites to get work in other departments

Cons

Management at least in my case didn't respond to e-mails or even phone calls sometimes. There was little appreciation from management of the work done but if something didn't get done you would herr from them quickly.

3.0
Feb 10, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

some of the best reasons to work at Applied Materials is about: Good pay, good team, good location, good weather.

Cons

Some of the downsides of working at Applied Materials: not really helpful to build up your career, the customers are poor.

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