Applied Materials reviews

Absolutely toxic environment and revolving door of management(every 8 or so months) and levels of management - they brought in shift leads for a year, realized they were doing nothing, fired them all, realized one manage couldn't do all the work, and two years later they instituted a co-manager. Coworkers, cannot wait to throw you under a bus. You will see someone who has a history of deenergizing a wrong tool , can't finish their passdowns in time, who is a CE IV or above just viciously attack you for not doing maintenance fast enough. You will have a lead who will show up 1-2 hours later ON A WEEKLY BASIS, who's coworkers have to call to wake him up. One lead in particular loved to say "should I get ____ fired? I think I should get ____ fired." That isn't leadership, that isn't being tough, it's being a backstabber and a horrible human. You ask a system's expert a question, they call your lead and say" ____ doesn't know how to do the work!". And you know it will be brought up in the weekly meeting. Coworkers won't try to help someone out if they make a mistake on shift, instead something like the following two things will happen: They wont say anything and you will find out about it months later. Two, they will passively aggressively state how they did the job the right way, and won't give you any details on what went wrong or why. So you're left with an environment where people can't wait to point the finger at their coworkers when they make a mistake, because they know others are throwing them under the bus behind they back as well. And for what? So they can get an office position so they don't have to work on the floor?

- Extreme politics - Non existent HR policies - No career growth - No bonus, extremely low hike - Work is totally different from what is mentioned in the job description - Low compensation - The company has a good culture and brand name overall but India office doesn't have a lot of growth opportunities