Excellent compensation, but way too many silos - Senior Program Manager Applied Materials Employee Review

4.0
Nov 15, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great compensation, great employees with extremely strong experience and capabilities, good strategic direction, strong leadership

Cons

Silos, Silos, Silos! It's hard to get your groups strategy executed with competing strategies from other groups, communication at senior levels is very lacking

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Cons

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Pros

Time off flexibility Project success acknowledgement

Cons

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