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      Applied Materials

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      Applied Materials reviews

      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (4,567 total reviews)
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      Gary Dickerson

      86% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Senior management

      Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,567 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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      5K reviews
      3.0
      Nov 18, 2008

      Not quite enough.

      Software engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      In the semiconductor industry, one of the only companies with a clear goal on how to survive the recent semi downturn and come out strong. Appears to be one of the better corporate citizens.

      Cons

      As I have read in other reviews, too much work politics as the company is literally structured as a FFA resource fest with too many stretch goals, insufficient resources, slightly incompetent upper management. This is the result of being in too many spaces and spread too thin. Also, being a publically traded company, too much emphasis on the short term bottom line with shareholder ass-kissing (and still doing poorly) over taking care of employees. Additionally, benefits are only average, especially for a high tech company.

      2.0
      Nov 18, 2008

      Applied Materials - Proceed With Caution.

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The scope of Applied Material's product offerings in semiconductor, solar, flat-panel, lighting, and other areas provide an environment in which technically adept engineers and scientists can find any number of intellectually challenging roles. Applied has an abundance of extremely sharp people in process engineering and product engineering. Applied also does a good job of promoting and celebrating technical excellence.

      Cons

      The culture is highly politicized. Organizations devolve into warring camps in which giving ground on a issue (technical, operational, financial) is seen as a losing power. Business unit leaders and their direct staff seem to spend more time competing with other internal divisions than with Applied's competitors. Key operations decisions are superficially fact-based but in reality depend more on who is currently in or out of favor with key operations executives. Applied has and continues to make a huge investment in the solar business but in my estimate has neither the the technology nor the business model to be successful. It will be interesting to see how many solar factory contracts are landed in the new capital market environment. Probably not many.

      4.0
      Nov 2, 2008

      Fast-paced, challenging, and (usually) rewarding workplace

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fast paced, very technology driven environment that demands high performance. Truly global workforce that can introduce communication challenges across time zones and cultures. Trying to reach beyond semiconductor equipment to reinvent itself in the solar and LED/lighting business. In general, the people are professional, hardworking and understand the concept of teamwork.

      Cons

      Promotions and career options are limited at customer field sites as compared to corporate headquarters. Wall Street doesn't respect the company (re: stock price).

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