Does Applied Materials pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Applied Materials employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Applied Materials. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Applied Materials?

78% of Applied Materials employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Applied Materials 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Applied Materials?

Process Engineer (199) , Customer Engineer (166) , Software Engineer (161) , Engineering Technician (102) , Engineer (95) , Mechanical Engineer (89) , Manufacturing Technician (79) , Customer Engineer II (77) , Senior Software Engineer (76) , Project Manager (68) , Applications Engineer (64) , Manufacturing Engineer (62) , Process Support Engineer (56) , Intern (47) , Technician (47)

What are the pros of working at Applied Materials according to real employee reviews?

"Benefits are good and Korea internal co workers are good" ((in 306 reviews)); "Worked in one of the most advanced companies in the Austin Texas area Well paid doesn't require high education great people to work with" ((in 305 reviews)); "Overall it's good and work life balance" ((in 289 reviews)); "Good pay and industry leader" ((in 211 reviews)); "only salary is good mangament is worrest" ((in 145 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Applied Materials according to real employee reviews?

"Long hours and getting longer as more people are laid off to get Executive management their bonuses." ((in 78 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs hurt morale." ((in 73 reviews)); "No training at all throw you in learn as you go" ((in 32 reviews)); "Everyone is afraid of senior management." ((in 23 reviews)); "Possible favoritism due to the knowledge of Mandarin language." ((in 14 reviews))

What are employees saying about Applied Materials layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Applied Materials layoffs and their outlook for job security at Applied Materials in 2026.

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3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(4,561 total reviews)

Gary Dickerson

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

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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 4,561 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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2.0

Feb 25, 2009

Great if you are a process or hardware engineer... not so good otherwise.

Program manager

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Pros

Bleeding edge technology. You will be working on the equipment that makes the next generation iPod / cell phone / eBook Reader / whatever possible. Though this company doesn't have the same name recognition as Intel's or AMD's, they depend on AMAT to get their products to market. AMAT is also full of some really smart people.

Cons

If you're not a Technologist or (hardware) Engineer, good luck getting anywhere. This is a technology company and management does not acknowledge that it takes other roles (Operations, Materials, etc) to actually get the product to the customer.

2.0

Feb 2, 2009

Applied Materials, every king must pass his crown....

Member of technical staff

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Pros

Diverse work force, some of the people truly care and are wonderful to work with. Pays well with good benefits. Some managers support the telecommuting option which makes work/life balance great (others don't like it and make it painful for those that are using telecommuting). They make excellent quality products, but silicon business isn't what it used to be.

Cons

Senior management is very disconnected with employees and has no sense of reality of what is really going on day-to-day. Some managers aren't very flexible to work/life balance. Lots of double-standards, senior management expects everyone to cuts costs, but they themselves aren't about to trim a nickle and reduce their comfort level.

1.0

Jan 27, 2009

Time for a change at Applied... 4 years of Splinter has produced zero in real returns to shareholders

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Very good benefits and overall compensation...

Cons

Senior management treats people as dispensable... in the current down turn, managment has chosen to keep it's luxury box at the HP Pavillion, it's Net Jets contract, and too continue to pay itself very generously. CEO - $9M, CFO $6M Also agree with other comments on organization structure and leadership... or really the lack of leadership. The CEO avoids all hard decisions and the CFO is a meglomaniac

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Applied Materials, every king must pass his crown....

Time for a change at Applied... 4 years of Splinter has produced zero in real returns to shareholders

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