On our Way Out - Senior Mechanical Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

2.0
Mar 26, 2010
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Pros

This was a great - repeat GREAT company. Also repeat - was..... Excellent management, career and corporate growth, vision, compensation - we had it all. Perhaps we became spoiled - or - read on

Cons

Poor to awful senior management, no respect for any employee lower than a VP (or which we have boat loads of), ~1.3 layoffs per year average with more to come in the near future. Senior management relocating development and manufacturing to Asia and firing the US based workforce. Etc. etc

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Pros

Hands on experience with the experienced engineers and physicists

Cons

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2.0
Apr 8, 2026
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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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