Work like a slave, get rewarded like a king - Anonymous employee Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
Aug 3, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Highly intelligent workforce, many opportunities to move around and grow your career. Challenging work for most roles, not boring! Lots of opportunities to make recommendations and influence up.

Cons

Many senior leaders seem to drive their own siloed agendas. It's not political in the sense of internal aggression, but it is difficult to collaborate and work across BU's and functions. Long-timers are rather jaded, probably because they have seen so many ups and downs in this highly cyclical environment.

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5.0
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4.0
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Pros

Strong place to start your career. If you do the Fusion Program you will learn a lot. Good training and benefits. Amazing Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Coworkers are smart and grounded people.

Cons

Stingy with salary, raises, and promotions. The engineer roles are broken up into Jr and Senior so the title progression goes Engineer I, I Sr, II, II Sr, etc which slows career progression and pay. Only the CA office gets extra pay due to the expense of living there, even if the MA office is expensive.

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