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      Applied Materials

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      Applied Materials reviews

      3.9

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (4,573 total reviews)
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      Gary Dickerson

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,573 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
      Mar 13, 2009

      Stay away from Applied Materials, unless you like corporate politcs!

      Manufacturing engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fair market salary, great benefits and profit sharing when the company was doing well.

      Cons

      Constantly changing initiatives, constant layoffs, no long term employment stability, always in reactive crisis mode for issues. Too much politics involved among 1st level managers and other groups. No standard 3D CAD package, every group uses different software. Makes cross functional design groups hard to operate. Little communication between design groups in Santa Clara, CA and manufacturing groups in Austin,Tx. Design groups allow poorly designed products to transition to Austin without accountability.

      2.0
      Feb 25, 2009

      Great if you are a process or hardware engineer... not so good otherwise.

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Bleeding edge technology. You will be working on the equipment that makes the next generation iPod / cell phone / eBook Reader / whatever possible. Though this company doesn't have the same name recognition as Intel's or AMD's, they depend on AMAT to get their products to market. AMAT is also full of some really smart people.

      Cons

      If you're not a Technologist or (hardware) Engineer, good luck getting anywhere. This is a technology company and management does not acknowledge that it takes other roles (Operations, Materials, etc) to actually get the product to the customer.

      2.0
      Aug 10, 2008

      Human Asset (stay) or Liability (gone yesterday)

      Field service engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      ETEC division paid better than standard AMAT because ETEC's OT and on-call standards were inherited from Perkin-Elmer and AMAT was unable to move the ETEC non-exempts to AMAT salary standards without having a mass exodus of experienced people. Stock options were good when they were not "under water." Kaiser NW medical option was a great benefit! Good separation package at the time.

      Cons

      Lay-offs lurk at every downturn. Reviews are not based on your actual contribution to the business but rather on how an employee in a particular group fits on a performance curve. In other words, if everybody performs excellent in a group of 10, somebody has to fall into the standard or substandard area because the review is tied to the pay increase.

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