Telecommuting support is nice, but company direction changes frequently. - werkgeversreview Project Manager bij Applied Materials

3,0
31 dec 2008
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Applied has a strong telecommuting culture. While this can allow for greater schedule flexibility, they tend to expect more work from you (e.g. 60 hrs+ a week).

Minpunten

The management is reactionary. The direction constantly changes. While the senior leadership lays out some good ideas for the future, there is a "don't rock the boat" culture which makes it difficult to work in an evolutionary fashion. It is not uncommon to work nights and weekends to accommodate last minute changes. Some efforts are undertaken strictly for how they "look" to senior management (knowing full well that the activity won't materially help our customers/company).

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5,0
22 mrt 2026
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Hands on experience with the experienced engineers and physicists

Minpunten

None really, having a good time

2,0
8 apr 2026
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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.

Minpunten

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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