Great Company Doing its Best to Grow - Declined Applied Materials Employee Review

4.0
23 Mar 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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.

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun/enagaging, team based and very welcoming. Tech company

Cons

Tech company, and the culture is unique

1.0
27 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This is a company with a great future and overall many smart and talented work colleagues.

Cons

There are pockets of poorly managed teams and the Global Sourcing and Procurement Team is one of them. Working for GSP was a soul crushing experience. On a regular basis, I witnessed and experienced mobbing, gaslighting, bullying, senior leaders retaliating and weaponizing the 360 feedback program for their own personal gain, senior leaders taking credit for other peoples work, long tenured leaders abusing their relationships within HR, regular staff crying and people admitting to seeking professional help due to the toxic work environment…ptsd in GSP is real. And to top it off, Applied’s most senior leadership have known of these issues for years.

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