Applied Materials reviews

-Contractors and vendors are treated like second class citizens--this bothered me even from an outsider's perspective -Inter-organizational collaboration/relations can be VERY bad -Career advancement entirely at the hand of your direct manager as a technician -Managers imposed arbitrary limits/time-gating on advancement/promotion that aren't even written in policy -Working in a full bunny suit much of the day -Work can be very hard and fast-paced, or very, very slow (most days are very slow). Can't expect much consistency in R&D -Even though the work is largely, blue collar, you will get a lot of office politics and white collar passive aggressiveness in the work culture. You'll find there are many unfriendly, and conniving coworkers. This culture seems to be encouraged. You can end up feeling lonely at work or falling into weird clicks like a high school due to this lack of personability.

Pathetic technology stack to work with. All the new tech will be discussed and developed secretly in Israel and will be handed over to India team after 2-3 years for maintenance. No training plan for lateral hires, need to roam around and ask everyone about the legacy framework that they use. Any new ideas and tech suggestions from India are always ignored and suppressed specially in AI/ML domain. Too many meetings and too many reorganizations. Half the time gets wasted in convincing people from the other side. All the managers are old guys who joined the company as a fresher and don't align well with new managers and architects, that's why so many of new guys leave. And every manager keeps a prodigy with them who gets all the good work, promotions while others are being ignored. Currently there is a trend to hire everyone from GE probably to imitate all the failures from there to here. It's just a regular offshore account of an MNC where all the cost cutting , and maintenance work happens, nothing different .