Applied Materials reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(4,561 total reviews)
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Gary Dickerson

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,561 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applied Materials employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
May 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are Pros to be mentioned if you're not joining CSS department.

Cons

- Micromanagement to its peak. Most of the managers have climbed to the manager's position just on the basis of there number of years spent with the CSS department though they don't even have any manager like basic qualities. - They don't respect your personal time and managers prime task is to keep track of what time you come and leave, and later in the day did you login from home or not. Utter rubbish!! - The autonomy of work even at senior/lead developer role is not given due to continuous micromanagement and you will feel like quitting your job every day. - AT CSS department there is no development work and nothing is there in future too because CSS department is just meant for maintenance and bug fixing work from US for the software products which were developed 10-15 years ago, so now you can also understand what kind of old technology you will be working on. - Pay scale is also not at par to the industry standards because they hire mainly to keep the headcount for billing the parent branch in US. - In CSS department they do talk about culture and values but contradict them at each and every step. - High attrition rate in the CSS department because of all of the above reasons. - Asking WFH is equivalent to asking for kidneys of manager. You won't believe it, once on taking WFH my manager said that if you are working from home then you should have more tasks on your plate. What nonsense thought it is, I still can't get it. - Expect calls and text from your manager outside office hours.

1.0
May 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

No pros.. standard pay in the field..

Cons

Pay still lower than what software people make in bay area so you are always outpaced by them. Horrible work hours for Process Engineers.. 10-12 hour work days and work even on weekend. Its assumed you will work on weekends without asking you. Too many projects for one engineer so you are always over burdened. Negligible chances of promotion. Average promotion take 7-9 years and only 10% raise after that. Afer promtion, you are expected to work even more

2.0
Jan 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work, technological forefront

Cons

Managers do not care how much you work they will still ask for more, no one takes your concerns seriously. I had many other job offers and chose this one because of the opportunity they hired me for, only to get moved. I gave new position a chance and now I hate it and I'm stuck. Thanks AMAT!

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