Applied Materials reviews

Signifcant lost of talent during last 2 years. Avarage professional level is reasonable, but not excelent. Overall looks like the company is in decline - long term career does not look promising

- Employee morale is very low here. - There is constant downsizing and moving jobs to China and Singapore. (Search AMAT jobs and most jobs are in China, Taiwan and Singapore) - Downsizing and shutdowns started in 2007 even before a hint of recession and it is still continuing for the next 18 months or so until end of 2010. - Employees end up taking unpaid shutdowns and at the end of year, they are laid off, so the company doesn't have to pay for accrued vacation. - Solar technology in terms of cost per watt lags way behind other leaders in the industry - Politics, Politics and Politics. Like one of the reviewers said, some people end up putting a lot of hours and some people almost absolutely none. You can only climb up the corporate ladder only if you have a godfather. - I have known several highly respected technical directors leave AMAT due to internal politics. - Managers have no idea what their employees are up to and what their goals and ambitions are. Managers have a tunnel vision to satisfy their immediate bosses without any clear focus on what they expect out of their employees.