Shady Management - Customer Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

1.0
Sep 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great opportunities to work with many different customers which translates to a valuable employment/learning experience. Some good and great coworkers inside this culture.

Cons

The culture has issues with honesty, is more "corporate" than most of the other suppliers of Semiconductor equipment. I was labeled a racist by an illiterate liar. I was never allowed to defend myself with my Manager who immediately referred to me HR, after denying that what he was told could in any way be false. I was 'fished' by the HR rep I talked to, they would not say what I said only that by using the word 'assault' for which was actually used by the person who accused me. My only sin was trying to joke with that guy who was actually someone I was training, someone who had almost no experience in a clean room, someone who lied about their direct labor contribution, and someone who clearly had connections I did not. I was also stole from by this person, and badgered over text about how I should let people take my stuff, and how it was acceptable to take my stuff and leave it where ever, having to 'find' my personal tools in a fab larger than a few football fields. I was also sent an email about how I gave someone a head job when nothing could be further from the truth. Yet, with all this evidence, my manager denied and would not respond to any evidence against this person. -- TRASH.

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Cons

There are pockets of poorly managed teams and the Global Sourcing and Procurement Team is one of them. Working for GSP was a soul crushing experience. On a regular basis, I witnessed and experienced mobbing, gaslighting, bullying, senior leaders retaliating and weaponizing the 360 feedback program for their own personal gain, senior leaders taking credit for other peoples work, long tenured leaders abusing their relationships within HR, regular staff crying and people admitting to seeking professional help due to the toxic work environment…ptsd in GSP is real. And to top it off, Applied’s most senior leadership have known of these issues for years.

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