Applied Materials Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"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?

"I enjoyed the people I worked with and the training and experience gained."

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

"I enjoyed working at Applied Materials."

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

"Positive."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Flexible hours, culture, enviroment."

"Great experience, required a lot of effort to be successful; very busy environment."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"A lot of educational opportunities, great for career enrichment. Culture at AKT was wonderful. People that I worked with were top notch."

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

"Be prepared, know what you are claiming on your resume. You own your desk from the start, and they expect you to hit the ground running."

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

"Talked a lot about work/life balance, but the company demanded a lot of hours in order to be successful and keep up with the workload."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not allow the team oriented culture to fade. This is what made it such a great place to work."

"I was a contractor working at Applied Materials. I would love to be an Employee at Applied Materials."

"At that time, it was the best place for me, the people, the growth potential."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"I'ts been 13 years. however it had all the right ingredients, growth, good people, etc."

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

"Go for it!"

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

"In the mid 90's, the newer management was out of their element when it came to new product development."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Go back and find the older generation engineering managers, and find out what made them tick, spend some time sitting next to each employee for a full day or so and see what they actually do, and don't call so many meetings."

"Very good company."

"Out of touch management - no interaction."

"Great place for training, hard to advance because community is so small."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"It always made me think about how to best solve a problem and how to recognize like-problems later. I loved working with intricate machines involving electronics/mechanical/software/exotic gases/high-vacuum and computer hardware."

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

"Learn your job well but be satisfied with being on the same level of duty/responsibilities for a long time."

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

"Advancement not likely very soon; support from upper management thin."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"We are all on the same team! If one of us does well, the entire team looks good."

"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."

"Great place to work."

"A great place to work, good people, open opportunities for advancement, great environment to excel and learn more."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Give me the opportunity to learn more about supply chain management, constant changes in technology and fast paced environment. The high energy that you feel in everyone, the commitment to accomplish the work with high standards, everyone working together to achieve the same goal and with enthusiasm. The dedication and commitment of the company for the well being of their employees, the training opportunities, the open door policy and accessibility to management. Real equal opportunity based on performance, not acquaintance or relation."

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

"Most of all you have to have the desire to do a good job every day to run the extra mile when you have the opportunity to see the results of your hard work and have the satisfaction to see your accomplishments day in and day out, that gives you the energy to return the next day."

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

"The only problem they have is the ups and downs of the industry. By being in the semiconductor industry the market can have drastic changes in demand; therefore, there were many lay-offs about every two or three years and we lost many good people in these turns."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have an open mind, I know there are rules and regulations but sometimes you have to go out of the box to accomplish special steps and accomplish something wonderful and beneficial to the organization. In general use good common sense not everyone is exactly alike and managers have to have not only the knowledge of the organization but have strong personnel management skills to be able to use their most strong asset the people that work for them."

"Fast paced organization that nimbly embraces constant change."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Challenging projects and leaders are recognized for their hard work and effort."

"Very nice experience."