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      Applied Materials

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      Applied Materials reviews

      3.9

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (4,573 total reviews)
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      Gary Dickerson

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      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 4,573 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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      5K reviews
      2.0
      May 2, 2013

      Was once a great company

      Human resources manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, very good benefits, used to have good training programs.

      Cons

      The culture of the 90's and early 00's is long gone. Solar was a total waste of time, talent, and capital. The stock hasn't budged in 10 years, stock buy back - fail, dividend - fail, cash from $8B to $2B. What a train wreck.

      2.0
      Jul 9, 2011

      Interesting, challenging, and well-paid work that comes with a lot of unnecessary headaches

      Senior global product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazing variety of different industries to work on (semi, display, solar, battery) Some very capable and aggressive people that are driven to success A strong legacy of fantastic technology products

      Cons

      Lots of political in fighting Focus is shifting from a technology company to an operational company, Finance and legal are becoming the dominant force of the company CEO and CFO seem to push to have as much outsourced to China as possible CFO, formerly in the oil industry, is making most key product decisions in the company, bad for the company

      1.0
      Jun 12, 2010

      Ridiculously long hours

      Process engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -- Good compensation compared to other jobs -- Flexible hours -- Coworkers on the lower levels are great people -- Everyone here is extremely smart and talented

      Cons

      -- Long hours all the time. It's expected that you work 12 hour days, and that you come in on weekends. Because of this, your hourly compensation is actually pretty bad. -- No work / life balance at all. Don't know how people with families can survive working at this company. -- Management won't allow more resources / hiring even though it will clearly help teams accomplish more work

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