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Software Engineers at Applied Materials give their company a 4.2 out of 5.0, while the average rating for Applied Materials is 4.0, making them 5% happier than every other employee at Applied Materials and 7% happier than every other Software Engineer on CareerBliss - the happiest Software Engineers work for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions.

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4.2
Average Rating
(based on 5 Software Engineer Review Ratings)
Software Engineer
in Sunnyvale, CA

"Great company, very interesting tasks. Good environment to learn new skills."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Good environment for self-development, challenging task to solve with decent salaries."

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

"To be ready to switch habitual environment, and willing to study something new."

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

"Because of the nature of semiconductor equipment industry, too much cycles of downturn with all related to this problems."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be focused not only on current financial results, make more long-term planning."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Software Engineer
in Salt Lake City, UT

"A good place to work, too bad they like cheap foreign engineers."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Good manager, great employees, great environment, great on equipment, fun to work with, was great compensation, good bonus every six months."

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

"Good Luck if you're a software engineer but otherwise there are a lot of opportunities in Santa Clara and Austin."

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

"Upper management doesn't know how to manage software, doesn't understand the process."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to realize with the high turnover in India and China that they are simply training their future competition. Short time benefits will be costly in the future."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5

Average Software Engineer Ratings in the Past 2 Years

Year Salary
2011 $4
2012 $4
Software Engineer
in Austin, TX
Person You Work For 1.3 / 5 People You Work With 3.1 / 5 Work Setting 3.1 / 5
Support You Get 1.5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1.3 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Software Engineer
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4.7 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4.1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.5 / 5
Company Culture 4.4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5

Average Applied Materials Attributes by Software Engineer

Company Culture
3.9
Growth Opportunities
3.6
People You Work With
4.6
Person You Work For
4.1
Rewards You Receive
4.4
Support You Get
3.7
Way You Work
4.6
Work Setting
4.4
Software Engineer
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Software Engineer

"Great for building a network."

What do you like about working at Applied Materials?

"Always interesting problems to work on."

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

"Be sure your career is more important than anything else."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Staff adequately."

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