Applied Materials reviews

1. Not much learning.Technology and domain is of no use in India for Mechanical Engineer at least. 2. Same type of work for all career bands.. 1 year and 6 years exp. engineer doing same work 2. Managers are just for doing yearly appraisals and approving your expense reports and bills. They ( in India office) are not technically suited for Design work ( whatever little you do ). Engineers don't get any input from them . They just advice that do what your co-workers in US ask you to do .Some of them are PhD ..but that of no use in India..they are good for research that never happens in India office. 3. After you work here for long time you can't get a job outside easily, you need to brush up your basic as this High tech company only good if you are a manager 4. In some teams its possible that you can work under a contractor or a contractor can assign you work.

We have an annual company-internal technology conference, and this year it is being held in Las Vegas. Despite a lot of employees being invited to attend, ultimately a lot of people can't because their bosses won't let them due to other work. We also have some celebration events maybe twice a year, usually held in the company parking lot. Despite the fact that it's held during the work week maybe from 11am to 4pm, people come for lunch and leave to go back to work immediately afterwards and end up having to stay extra long due to the hour they spend their during lunch. We have all-hands meetings once a quarter, yet at the end of the meetings at 5pm, even though the executives tell everyone to go home and have a good weekend, everybody really just has to return back to work and work extra hours because of the time spent at the meetings. Be prepared to often spend 80+ hours working in a week, and having to work >12 hours each day of Saturday and Sunday.