Applied Materials Reviews

Pros

Made good friends. We used to have classes, not anymore.

Cons

People are not respected. This is a great place for layoffs. The constant fear of being let go disrupts the work.

Advice to Senior Management

Have managers help employees with their career advancement.

Pros

salaries. benefits. good colleagues with strong camaraderie. high class technology.

Cons

bureaucratic and very political to advance in the company. training provided is insufficient yet managers expectations can be unreasonable. employees are placed in difficult and more testing conditions than others, and this is not considered when performance evaluation is conducted at the end of the year. skills and knowledge acquired is not transferable to other industries.

Pros

Superior Technology
Diverse Market penetration
Global presence
Lots of cash

Cons

Applied became more focused on saving a dollar. Moved to much overseas. Lost sight in the value of their employees. Focused to much on Solar.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep more of it's core business in the U.S.

Pros

It is a work place one enjoys with reasonable provided benefits.
Some of the managers are worth working with and good to be in company with for professional growth.

Cons

No personal growth , however lately HR started realizing this one after Survey. Were they sleeping before?
First Level managers, need to pass down culture the fashion they receive from their.
Department matters a lot for growth where one joins. Give importance to work rather than money as later you may realize there hasn`t any value addition in your professional growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Change is required. Some old manager is still lying for ages now. Stagnation is death.

Pros

People: Great Managerrs and leaders
Challenging Work: Make you think
Ability to impact change: Your thoughts and action are considered
Good Balance: Hard work with some downtime

Cons

Political: Sucees is about what you do an who you need to work with to accomplish
Significanat nunmber of employees are long tenured - sense of entitlements

Pros

good pay; opportunity to move around

Cons

long hours, work a lot of week ends

Advice to Senior Management

co workers need to be more responsive and friendly. difficult to get things done. no rewards or expectations for collaboration

Pros

Other than some managers, most employees are great to work with and are very helpful. Good team attitude between coworkers.

Cons

Some lower level managers are still in high school playing their little click games so if you're not part of their group you don't get recognized. These managers are also so intent on moving up the ladder that they forget they have people working for them and don't seem to be part of the "team".

Advice to Senior Management

When an employee has put more than 9 years in with the company with consistently good performance reviews and is terminated for not shipping "one" back order on time (because purchasing couldn't get all the parts in on time), maybe the manager has a personal vendetta against that employee (I was asked to give a anonymous review on my direct manager which I believe was shared with him because this upper manager who asked for the review was "buddy buddy" with him). There should have a review process in place to ask the employee their side of the story so they don't loose good employees.

Pros

Good work culture. Nice, co-operative employees. Challenging job.

Cons

Less focus on employee career development. Un-transparent promotions and recognition policies.

Advice to Senior Management

Should include emplyoee development as one of the core company values, and should work towards it sincerely.

Pros

Hard working people, but, very cyclical.

Cons

Lay offs were too frequent and caused serious damage to people's lives and their jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

Manage the supply / demand curve !

Pros

Applied Materials allow the employee a lot of flexablity and freedom on the job.

Cons

Many lay-offs and high stress

Advice to Senior Management

Need to praise their employee's more often.