Applied Materials reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(4,566 total reviews)
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Gary Dickerson

86% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,566 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 Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Feb 25, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Technology leader, financially stable company. Good learning opportunities for how to operate a business. Tries to adapt to new methods to keep current.

Cons

Not a good place for advancement unless you are are part of the good old BOY network. No advancement for women. Only exec positions for women are in HR and some finance. Nothing in technology or business. Poor work-life balance, especially for the pay.

1.0
Dec 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I don't see any reason to work this company. Company lacks direction from senior management. I will not recommend anyone to work for this company. This is the worst company I have every worked with and worst people I have dealt with. People are not at all friendly.

Cons

Not a professional environment to work for in long term. management constant change direction and lack clear visibility. There are lot of politics and lack of communication between different group. People hide information from each other and try to push other people down. The company is really not doing well and if possible try to avoid this company.

1.0
Oct 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get a pay check every two weeks. Sometimes it's slow and you can have a relaxing shift. OT is often available.

Cons

Absolutely toxic environment and revolving door of management(every 8 or so months) and levels of management - they brought in shift leads for a year, realized they were doing nothing, fired them all, realized one manage couldn't do all the work, and two years later they instituted a co-manager. Coworkers, cannot wait to throw you under a bus. You will see someone who has a history of deenergizing a wrong tool , can't finish their passdowns in time, who is a CE IV or above just viciously attack you for not doing maintenance fast enough. You will have a lead who will show up 1-2 hours later ON A WEEKLY BASIS, who's coworkers have to call to wake him up. One lead in particular loved to say "should I get ____ fired? I think I should get ____ fired." That isn't leadership, that isn't being tough, it's being a backstabber and a horrible human. You ask a system's expert a question, they call your lead and say" ____ doesn't know how to do the work!". And you know it will be brought up in the weekly meeting. Coworkers won't try to help someone out if they make a mistake on shift, instead something like the following two things will happen: They wont say anything and you will find out about it months later. Two, they will passively aggressively state how they did the job the right way, and won't give you any details on what went wrong or why. So you're left with an environment where people can't wait to point the finger at their coworkers when they make a mistake, because they know others are throwing them under the bus behind they back as well. And for what? So they can get an office position so they don't have to work on the floor?

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