Program Manager / Engineering Manager - Anonymous employee Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
Nov 17, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great company to work with.

Cons

Program managers working in Applied Materials are very specific to Applied's need. Even after 10 + yrs of experience it is very very hard to get thru in the market as the processes followed is very specific to Applied and lack of usage of Project management tool for day to day function such as monitoring the resource loading, cost estimations, risk identifications, etc etc...

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