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      Applied Materials

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      Applied Materials reviews

      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (4,564 total reviews)
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      Gary Dickerson

      86% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Senior management

      Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,564 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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      5K reviews
      4.0
      Apr 8, 2010

      Overall work environment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Very flexible atmosphere where the employee is empowered to make decisions and be self sufficient. Strong training resources available and good mentorship programs.

      Cons

      There are some large bureaucracies within the company and some actions take an extremely long time to get accomplished. They could do a better job in communicating some employee senstive messages.

      1.0
      Apr 7, 2010

      Good for new college graduate, but not for long term career growth

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Many different divisions, technologies, job functions, relative easy to move to different jobs within the company

      Cons

      Long hour, stressful cyclic industry; no career advancement if you want work life balance; too much politics at higher management level; bureaucratic; use highly educated engineer as technician

      4.0
      Apr 7, 2010

      Applied Materials is not a bad place, just dont expect job security or pay raises.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Great benefits, great time off, good pay, and a good name to work for. The engineers that work for the company are actually very intelligent not only on the machines serviced, but very smart overall in electronics, and electronic troubleshooting. Attention to detail is something everyone shared. That was and still is a good advantage that Applied Materials has over other competitors.

      Cons

      Room for growth is hard to come by unless you fit in a certain group. It really is a networking style of friendship. Its who you know that gets you there. Layoffs have happened but does not seem fair as the little guy gets shoved off while the top fellas are making millions and the company still reaps millions. Tech support is in India which (no offense at all) is very hard to communicate with the folks over there and in turn causes more downtime on our end trying to get problems solved. Honestly, the good old days of great raises, company cars, etc.. are all gone and never coming back for the simple reason of pleasing stock holders and not the employees.

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