Applied Materials Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Applied Materials full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Customer-focused thinking in a sector of relentless change

Cons – Culture is of keeping you doing what you have been good at doing. No notion of growth out side the box.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote unconstrained thinking that is truly outside your comfort zone.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Applied Materials full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very talented workforce, latest technology, good customer collaboration

Cons – Sometimes, it feels like AMAT product offerings are into a very wide landscape, and management tends to lose focus on priorities

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline products, optimize resources, and get out of markets which do not seem to have long term visibility

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Applied Materials

Pros – nice people and work environment

Cons – work in Varian, and a little far-off

Former Employee – worked at Applied Materials full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Committed management and focused on key R&D, business lines. New management respected by Wall Street is in transition. Values employees who are committed to company success and meets or exceeds objectives.

Cons – Big company mentality rather than entrepreneurial. Can be difficult to make real change. Visions of grandeur, then layoffs every other year. Cyclical pains. Constant cost cutting and budget controls are hard to deal with and after several it can wear you down.

Advice to Senior Management – None at this time. The vision is good and the transition seems to be on the right track. Macro business environment determines success in any given year so you are constantly looking over your shoulder. Even in a good year, cost cutting abounds and leaves little room for wanting to push the envelope.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Applied Materials full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Comprehensive company focused on technology of semiconductor equipment, you have the chance to develop your technology capability in all the aspects of semiconductor fabrication if you want to be a technologist

Cons – It's the biggest company in it's field and gradually it develops a lot of inefficiency and a lot of politics bubbles

Advice to Senior Management – Credit people working on the frontier fields, not those so called fat sr. managers,esp, fatty directors

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Applied Materials for more than 10 years

Pros – Comprehensive and competitvie compensation package

Cons – Changes all the time, direction not clear

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Applied Materials full-time for more than a year

Pros – Employee and customer focused messaging from Corporate perspective. Compensation structure (salary, bonus, RSU's, benefits) are competitive within Silicon Valley

Cons – Industry is susceptible to severe downturns every 3-5 years resulting in corresponding employee downsizing events. The company has invested large sums in the Solar equipment space which is currently dominated by the Chinese. Even though the company has tried to rightsize the business to make it breakeven in the hopes of a turnaround, my feeling is this will be a fruitless effort in the long run

Advice to Senior Management – Stay focused on core technology in semiconductor manufacturing space.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Applied Materials full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Lots of opportunity
Support of diversity
Great training

Cons – Analysis of employee resources can be poor
To quick to lay-off

Advice to Senior Management – Employees are treated a bit too much as a number. Even rated as TC and having 10 years of CMP exp at R&D, field support, demo I was offered VSP. This was bad for Applied materials, but I am happy to not travel in this point in my life so it worked out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Applied Materials full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great pay and benefits. Managers are supportive for the most part.

Cons – Reduction in workforce alway looming over your head. Outsourcing a big deal there.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the jobs here and acquire local talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Applied Materials full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Can learn the most advantage technology in terms of process and equipment in semiconductor industry. Support different customers all over the world.

Cons – The percentage of customer technology support travel is a little high. Sometimes it is not easy to balance work and life time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend