Decent Place to Work - Manufacturing Technician I Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
Sep 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Management is flexible if you need time off. Company sponsored events and meals. Employee stock purchase program. Generous vacation time. Overtime available. Fun place to work. Great coworkers.

Cons

Many of the experienced employees are earning less than the newer employees they're training. Advancement seems difficult - many employees who have worked there 20+ years who are doing the same thing now that they were doing when they started. Huge disconnect between what management thinks they know and what is happening on the production floor.

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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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