Applied Materials Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Company moving as much work overseas as possible, Austin workforce is in a decline."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Exciting, challenging, very empowered workforce in the 90s. Since 2003 trend was always downward. As things stabilized from the growth of the 90s, to shrinking, became regimented and a life of avoiding layoffs. I personally avoided 14 of them."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't. Unless you have a unique skill they need and you want to spend a great deal of your time in Asia."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Constant overall decline since 2003, working with a perpetual sense of dread. Years of forced time off, the reward for excelling was not being fired. Company developed the ability to lie to itself."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Know what they invested in with Solar, and understand what Applied did well in semiconductor does not apply. Structure the semiconductor business for the size it is instead of continuing the constant internal pain."

"Applied Materials used to be the place to work, but has become a horrible nightmare."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"The money was pretty good, and I had a lot of opportunity to learn a lot about semiconductors, the processes and the mechanics of developing them."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"The current CEO doesn't care about the employees, and creates cuts in benefits and pay while increasing his own. Not a good situation anymore."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Start becoming an innovator again. Take care of your employees."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Competitive working atmosphere. Design work and industry experience."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Location."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Opportunity to grow in career."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"IT outsource that affected talented and dedicated hard working employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give loyal employees more opportunities."

"Applied Materials compensates according to industry, praises their employees when a job is well done and offers a vast amount of in-house training programs for advancement."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Although Applied Materials is an extremely large company with many divisions, every person I interacted with was a team player trying to get the job accomplished."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Applied Materials would vamp up employment in mass quantities which caused for heavy lay-offs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I had the opportunity to work in several positions with the company. I was very pleased with the management I fell under."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask for a tour to see the industrial solar glass production floor. Awesome experience!!!"

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Professional enviroment, opportunity for advancement, flexibility, opportunity to utilize skill set and learn new job, the job skills."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Extension plan for Contractors on the 365 day regulation."

"OK company, overall, taking into account its specialization - capital equipment manufacturing."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Working with multiple departments from different areas."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Job security and career development."

"Applied as a whole is a great place to work, the quailty dept is of the first dept's to get cut when layoffs occur."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"I liked working with the other customer engineers as well as the customers to help resolve any quality and user interface issues."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Applied Quality is one of the first places they make cuts when lay-offs and cost reduction are needed. They look at the Quality Dept as a cost without much if any return."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on quality as well as product and field service."

"Quality experience in a Fortune 500 environment."

"I am contract employee of Applied Materials working from Mahindra Satyam and I am very thankful for the company which enhanced my career growth."

"Great place to work."

"Industry leader, cyclic business."

"Applied internally trains new college graduates and mid-career professionals."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"The employees are friendly and ambitious."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Working on Saturdays."

"Good place to work at, good environment, good people."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Interaction with internal and external customers, interaction with engineering teams, felt like I could contribute to the growth of the company, Travel, support from others, resources."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have high expectations of yourself and take advantage of the growth opportunities."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"High stress environment during down turn situation, large variation of management styles."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create a management culture that everyone can follow to make employees feel more comfortable and empowered to perform always at their peak."

"Working for Applied Materials was a challenging opportunity to wear many different hats."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"There was always a new challenge and the people/management were very supportive."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Get all the experience you can and try to work in various roles to gain the most from your time."

What don't you like about working at Applied Materials?

"There was never a great sense of job security. The industry was very unpredictable."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management at Applied Materials was very good and contributed to job satisfaction. I don't have any suggestions for improvement because I didn't have any issues with the management."