Contractor at AMAT - Member Of Technical Staff Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
Mar 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Agree with others about the professional, smart and talented people at AMAT. Where I was working there were a number of veterans and ex-nuclear power sailors like myself, which made for a driving "get'er done" environment.

Cons

Yes company's focus is definitely towards Asia. Not surprising since biggest customers are now in Taiwan, Japan and China. Also helped by AMAT's merger with Tokyo Electron. Also, agree with the overtime / outside normal business hours operations. AMAT have outsourced a lot of parts and operations so vendors at times know more about processes than AMAT people. So there is the issue of tribal knowledge versus loss of Intellectual Property to those outside vendors.

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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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