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      Applied Materials

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      Applied Materials reviews

      3.9

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (4,584 total reviews)
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      Gary Dickerson

      86% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Senior management

      Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,584 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applied Materials employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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      5K reviews
      1.0
      May 6, 2013

      We are a big bully company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      lots of online training available(most for a fee). OK benefits if you can afford to purchase. Management has an open door policy that allows for greater lip service or derisiveness. Whichever they feel is necessary at the time to control you and make you fear them.

      Cons

      Applied Materials no longer has a compact with their employees and their only focus is on shareholder value and continued efforts to reduce costs no matter what. Mostly at the expense of employee quality of life.

      2.0
      May 2, 2013

      Was once a great company

      Human resources manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, very good benefits, used to have good training programs.

      Cons

      The culture of the 90's and early 00's is long gone. Solar was a total waste of time, talent, and capital. The stock hasn't budged in 10 years, stock buy back - fail, dividend - fail, cash from $8B to $2B. What a train wreck.

      2.0
      May 1, 2013

      Initially very promising, but disappointed in some time

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Estimates are respected. Good work life balance (at least as of 2010 it existed) * Work From Home facility and flexible working hours * Opportunities to interact with colleagues/customers from multiple geographical locations

      Cons

      * Frankly not a company for Software Engineers. Software divisions are very neglected in the company. From pay, bonuses to team outings, Software Engineers (and also Software Engineering managers) are treated like 2nd grade citizens. * Very poor growth: One level-up costs you many years. Change only in designation, literally no change in role. Applied Materials recruited high-calibre people (people from premier instituties like IIT, BITS, NITs etc) during 2005, 2006 and 2007 for it's Automation Products division. In a matter for few years, all (I repeat, all) of them left the company for the same reason: lack of growth. * Poor pay compared to rest of the software industry. We were always told that "Applied Materials is a very good payer, we stand at 90% percentile..." - but unfortunately that statement was made based on comparison with just a few other companies that constitute only a very small fraction of already-small semi-conductor industry.

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