Good money, long hours (when there's parts), friendly work environment. - Engineering Technician I Applied Materials Employee Review

4.0
Feb 26, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

When parts are coming in, expect to work between 50-60 hours per week. When parts are not coming in, which can be fairly common occurrence, hours may get cut short into the 30-40 hour range. As long as you do your due diligence in getting your work done properly and SAFELY, your supervisors will be pretty hands off. Upper management and supervisors take safety extremely seriously above all else, which is very comforting to know. The machines that technicians work on are extremely complex to test and troubleshoot, but everyone in the department, from coworkers to supervisors to engineering are all very helpful in helping one another with solving problems together. I've never felt afraid to ask questions nor rushed whenever I was stuck on something, since the main objective was to move products out the other in safe and efficient manner.

Cons

Long work hours can be very taxing. An uninterrupted work week will consist of 6 days with 10 hour shifts. You'll be earning lots of money,

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1.0
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Pros

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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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