Decent place to work but only those on the in with management will succees and last. - Anonymous employee Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
2 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Global travel opportunities. Good bonus/stock option program for upper level pay grades in engineering and management. Decent amount of vacation time.

Cons

Four to five weeks of shutdown every year. Multiple layoffs every couple of years. Only 8 paid holidays a year, embarrassing small amount for a company the size of Applied Materials. Stingy raises.

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1.0
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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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