Good to start with but not fit for further career development - Anonymous employee Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
26 Mar 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Advanced technologies and you can learn a lot here

Cons

Too much politics, bad work-life balance, low paid in bay area, hard to get promotion. And the company now is taking more energy on finance and publicity. Poor tech R&D gets less and less support and funding. Technology is the most important key to lead in the field. But AMAT gets lost.

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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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