Fading glory - Process Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You'll have a wide exposure to many technical problems. With the right manager you can really dive into different areas. The company is relatively big so that there are opportunities in other business segments as well.

Cons

There can be a struggle for work-life balance. The bottom line is making a profit, no matter how well you do if you're not part of a great profit center then you are not a darling of management. I would also say moral has not been the best since I've joined the company (~5 years ago). Too many people are leaving and we are not drawing experienced people in to fill the losses.

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Cons

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2.0
Apr 8, 2026
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Pros

Salary, I was compensated very well, the I hated working there so much that I resigned without anything even lined up. It was a good move for my mental health.

Cons

The leadership in general are not very intelligent, disorganized, and uncommunicative. They were decades behind in certain areas that lead to massive inefficiencies and overwork. (Out of respect I will not be specific). I suggested an improvement that would have taken task time down from 8 hours to virtually real time, but the executive Team, in their arrogance, did not allow me to implement the system. Sometime later, the cumbersome, unreliable system was not working and a deadline approaching. I worked 20 hours per day for 7 days and built an entire real time reporting system - then resigned. No one at AMAT was ever helpful. It always seemed an inconvenience to give a colleague outside ones group the time of day. I gained absolutely ZERO new skills or professional development at AMAT all my time there. Many of the employees at the time, including senior management, felt free to publicly express invectives against the current POTUS in their suffering TDS. Another reason I could not work in the environment. Rules for thee and not for me.

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