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      Ramp up to 21st century - Sr Director Strategic Marketing Applied Materials Employee Review

      3.0
      Feb 18, 2025
      Sr director strategic marketing
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      Pros

      1. Very strong STEM-based workforce - Materials Science, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering. 2. Most BU leaders have Ph.Ds. Strong technical leadership and therefore, unlikely to crumble like Intel in the next 10-15 years.

      Cons

      1. Workforce dominated by lifers with 20-30 years at Applied or the semiconductor capital equipment industry . Some are literally fossils holding on to their jobs with no innovative thinking and flag-bearers of naysaying. 2. Prescriptive culture and sheltered existence resulting in shockingly poor business acumen demonstrated even at Sr. Director levels. 3. Rampant politics and quid pro quo culture are definitely hurting gross margins.

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      5.0
      Jun 10, 2026
      Mba finance intern
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      Pros

      Fun/enagaging, team based and very welcoming. Tech company

      Cons

      Tech company, and the culture is unique

      1.0
      Jun 27, 2026
      Anonymous
      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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