Great company, but a lot to be desired - Customer Engineer III Applied Materials Employee Review

2.0
Mar 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay (but don’t expect any big raises) Good benefits, stock program Flexible with time off Good people work for the company

Cons

Management is more concerned with KPI’s (key performance indicators), than helping individuals find their path for the future. When I started, there was lots of talk about guidance for career goals, but ZERO follow up. My manager changed about every 1.5-2 years, which was obnoxious. They WILL make you do lots of overtime and somehow it always happens during the summer. Minimal opportunity for upward movement.

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

This is a company with a great future and overall many smart and talented work colleagues.

Cons

There are pockets of poorly managed teams and the Global Sourcing and Procurement Team is one of them. Working for GSP was a soul crushing experience. On a regular basis, I witnessed and experienced mobbing, gaslighting, bullying, senior leaders retaliating and weaponizing the 360 feedback program for their own personal gain, senior leaders taking credit for other peoples work, long tenured leaders abusing their relationships within HR, regular staff crying and people admitting to seeking professional help due to the toxic work environment…ptsd in GSP is real. And to top it off, Applied’s most senior leadership have known of these issues for years.

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