Wish I could give this place 0 stars - Customer Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

1.0
Oct 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get a pay check every two weeks. Sometimes it's slow and you can have a relaxing shift. OT is often available.

Cons

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?

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Pros

Salary, I was compensated very well, the I hated working there so much that I resigned without anything even lined up. It was a good move for my mental health.

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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