good to start a career, bad to retire here - Customer Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
Jul 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

offers a great amount of opportunities to travel around Do value the safety standards.

Cons

Too much politics around your work. Very unstable. The customer contract will be reduced to none eventually, so if you want to work for this company, then you have to move around wherever a new customer signs contract with AMAT.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

This is a company with a great future and overall many smart and talented work colleagues.

Cons

There are pockets of poorly managed teams and the Global Sourcing and Procurement Team is one of them. Working for GSP was a soul crushing experience. On a regular basis, I witnessed and experienced mobbing, gaslighting, bullying, senior leaders retaliating and weaponizing the 360 feedback program for their own personal gain, senior leaders taking credit for other peoples work, long tenured leaders abusing their relationships within HR, regular staff crying and people admitting to seeking professional help due to the toxic work environment…ptsd in GSP is real. And to top it off, Applied’s most senior leadership have known of these issues for years.

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