Meatgrinder - Anonymous employee Applied Materials Employee Review

1.0
Jul 27, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility with regard to telecommuting Above average salary and benefits

Cons

Company culture is you have to work real hard and put in insane hours so you have a chance of surviving the next round of layoffs. The moral of individual contributors is at rock bottom and management has no idea how worn down their employees are. Career advancement is only for those in political favor with upper management; job performance is not a factor.If your not one of the favored you are a cog in the system. Company locations in the US are ghost towns as a result of repeated layoffs and more work functions are moved off shore or outsourced.

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Cons

The leadership in general are not very intelligent, disorganized, and uncommunicative. They were decades behind in certain areas that lead to massive inefficiencies and overwork. (Out of respect I will not be specific). I suggested an improvement that would have taken task time down from 8 hours to virtually real time, but the executive Team, in their arrogance, did not allow me to implement the system. Sometime later, the cumbersome, unreliable system was not working and a deadline approaching. I worked 20 hours per day for 7 days and built an entire real time reporting system - then resigned. No one at AMAT was ever helpful. It always seemed an inconvenience to give a colleague outside ones group the time of day. I gained absolutely ZERO new skills or professional development at AMAT all my time there. Many of the employees at the time, including senior management, felt free to publicly express invectives against the current POTUS in their suffering TDS. Another reason I could not work in the environment. Rules for thee and not for me.

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