No more WFH benefit. Bad culture - Supply Chain Applied Materials Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good colleagues and team. Good learning opportunity as a stepping stone

Cons

- Company CEO removed hybrid work suddenly, not even allowing 1 day WFH. Ignoring employee well-being and inclusion. - says that company still offer great flexibility for those who can WFH. But if the company policy is 100% onsite, will mgrs even allow WFH? A big NO. - company future way of work is hotdesking but requires 100% onsite? How is this possible? Clearly, ignornant about where everyone’s gonna sit. Throwing everyone to fight and scramble for a seat. How is this a good company culture and conducive environment? - Higher management not listening to the voices on ground. Having hybrid work is the greatest flexibility applied can provide. - politics between cross functional team. - management always going back on their words and directives (eg. implementing WFH hybrid but decided to take back, stating project deadline but decided to expedite for sooner closure)

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Apr 8, 2026
Recommend
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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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