Applied Materials reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(4,567 total reviews)
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Gary Dickerson

86% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Applied Materials has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,567 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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3.0
Apr 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Never get bored - Broad scope and lots of learning opportunities - Company supports career developments activities (various training)

Cons

- hard to get promoted - people dont give a fk. Avg time for ppl who work here is 25 years and no one is motivated to change - bureaucracy and office politics everywhere - everyone is a director....but you

1.0
Mar 8, 2019
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Pros

If you are a Yes Boss kind of guy, then this is the right place for you.

Cons

Yes Boss kind of culture in CSS Group Bangalore only. You can have growth only if you have Yes Boss attitude, fake and loud smile and some leave/fired whose position you can take, not because of your talent and caliber. All non technical guy has become manager because of Yes Boss culture. Their main job is to track when you come and leave, after home do you login or not? till what time of night, would you be online in IM for just in case someone from US may think of ping you? Few people types mail from office and send from home during late night time just to show that they worked till late night and are highly appreciated one. More focus on when you come and go, rather than work. Focus only on visibility not on work quality. Even worse than service industry. Lot of favoritism within the group, whoever butter up his/her manager only those will be promoted, chances to US visit. Earlier they used to hire from IIT/NIT, now only from respective manager's college. Only bug fixing work is being done from India, good work does not come to Bangalore at all as most of good technical people have already left. Company policy is there to do work from home. If someone is doing work from home because of some personal reason/medical reason, he/she will be asked for n reason and finally end of less hike/bonus whereas few of their favourite people are working from home since couple of years and enjoying good salary. On paper they claim about diverse culture and all. Recently few of women employee has been fired and harassed or in the list of firing list as after maternity leave their productivity may get impacted.

3.0
Feb 6, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to start your career fresh out of college. You will be thrown into the deep well of real semiconductor industry and it would be up to you to use every chance to learn new things. Starting salary are always at par or above market rate.

Cons

Lack of mentorship, guidance especially for new college grads. Lots of micromanagement from mid level managers who take the credit for your work. Poor co-ordination and communication among cross-functional teams leading to wastage of time in long email chains.

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