Applied Materials reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(4,570 total reviews)
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Gary Dickerson

86% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,570 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
2.0
Aug 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The salaries here are generally pretty good, assuming that you can land full time employment. They LOVE to hire contractors. There are positions that require high tech thinking and can be very rewarding IF you are fortunate enough to get into one and IF you are fortunate enough to be working on a (presently) "hot" project and IF you are fortunate enough to have a decent boss who won't steal the credit for your work. If you like to travel, this place can keep you on the road all that you can handle and more. If you are a PowerPoint and meeting junkie, this is your nirvana. If you are a person who lives on the phone, this is your place.

Cons

Very, very TOP HEAVY (over-managed). Imperial and greedy management style (no one below Managing Director level matters at all, we're all just interchangeable widgets according to them). Legions of VPs, project managers and others trying to make themselves appear important at your expense. The vast majority of jobs here are pedestrian at best. Management historically tends to cut good people when cutting projects instead of re-purposing them. It's all about who you know without apparent regard to what you actually have accomplished. The new downsized cubicles are a total joke and a massive disservice to all who suffer in them. Facilities runs the entire company. The evidence for this is quite plain to see. It is the worst I have experienced in my entire career. Facilities should not be run like a profit center. Endless meetings, preparations for meetings, meetings to plan for meetings (literally), and other mindless related things. A new hot corporate initiative a week or so it seems, 95% of which are not only wasteful, but are in many instances quite actively destructive. This company can completely take over your life if you let it. You want to work 100 hours a week? No problem, it will happen. They literally used to warn about this during the new employee orientations...! Whatever you hire in as, you are likely to remain as. Don't plan a long career here (unless you are a bureaucrat).

1.0
Dec 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

I don't see any reason to work this company. Company lacks direction from senior management. I will not recommend anyone to work for this company. This is the worst company I have every worked with and worst people I have dealt with. People are not at all friendly.

Cons

Not a professional environment to work for in long term. management constant change direction and lack clear visibility. There are lot of politics and lack of communication between different group. People hide information from each other and try to push other people down. The company is really not doing well and if possible try to avoid this company.

1.0
May 13, 2024

No growth no future

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stock options , rsu offered .

Cons

Hierarchical structure Too many managers No 360 degree feedback No redressal mechanism No clarity on polices Worst health care plan Worst severance package Too much dependency on one client No support to working mother's Discrimination environment against fairer sex. Lots of talk about hiring female workforce , and in highly skewed female ratio , they find reasons to fire working mothers In Times of layoff , in order to avoid giving severance package , they put employees on performance cycles, and inspite of delivering and working hard , they end up finding lame excuses to fire employees, such as in case of requirement change by customer , it is developers fault, connecting with some one else on the team without management approval, it is a crime .In the end they save on severance package.

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