Applied Materials Reviews in Austin, TX Area

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

Pros – a competitive salary and benefits

Cons – long hours and longer hours

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

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

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.

Advice to Senior Management – Mike needs to go. The company needs to focus on the core business again, just like what Jim did back in the day.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – high pay as compared to market

Cons – flexible workforce, hire and fire

Advice to Senior Management – better HC planning

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – great salary and job function

Cons – Poor executive leadership, and direction of company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Salaries and benefits are generous; telecommuting is encouraged especially in IT ; large company with multitude of opportunities throughout the company; employees are friendly and helpful and have been there for a long time

Cons – Poorly managed and lagging behind competition; consistent management turmoil and quarterly layoffs; lagging stock price and options; merger with Varian Semiconductor left power strife that is undermining company values and opening company up to more turmoil; greater than average turnover of employees

Advice to Senior Management – Clearer vision and strategy to lead the company. Decide who is in charge Gary Dickerson or Mike Splinter and prevent more senior leadership attrition

No, I would not 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 – Hard working talented individuals at the grass roots/functional management level.

Cons – Uninspiring top management leadership that is negatively impacting shareholder value due to lack of direction specifically related to growth avenues.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on increasing shareholder value by commiting to growing the company.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Worked with very smart, competent people while at this company. They really do acquire good employees and it had a very good team appeal in the work groups I was involved. Many opportunities to make good business connections and move around within the company.

Cons – There are sometimes too much business processes to get through to get to the end result. During my initial time in this company, there were too many levels between individual contributor and CEO. It had since come down and been flattened before I left.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Applied Materials full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The people work as teams and cross-teams - leadting to a wonderful sense of accomplishment

Cons – The business is cyclical and that leads to labor reductions - just live with it or perhaps this is not the place for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat people like adults and empower them to create the future.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Applied Materials full-time

Pros – - Very good compensation
- Job challenges will make you learn and keep you busy (some overtime)
- Smart people and good teams

Cons – - No opportunity to grow
- No clear vision or direction from upper management
- Lots of lay-offs

Advice to Senior Management – Need some fresh blood in upper management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good salary, interesting projects to work on

Cons – Short sighted vision. Implemetation of plans changed too often. We would be told to go one way, then another.

Advice to Senior Management – Look out for employees more than for your own bonases. Look further down the road than 1 to 2 years ahead.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend