People were friendly and helpful, but upper management is unorganized - Process Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

2.0
Jan 8, 2013
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Pros

Being able to work with lots of interesting, smart, driven coworkers.

Cons

Upper management is very unorganized. The only way to get a promotion is to fake working long hours. In return, it's very unproductive and things that should take 2 hours end up taking 20 hours.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Stingy with salary, raises, and promotions. The engineer roles are broken up into Jr and Senior so the title progression goes Engineer I, I Sr, II, II Sr, etc which slows career progression and pay. Only the CA office gets extra pay due to the expense of living there, even if the MA office is expensive.

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