Interesting, challenging, and well-paid work that comes with a lot of unnecessary headaches - Senior Global Product Manager Applied Materials Employee Review

2.0
Jul 9, 2011
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Pros

Amazing variety of different industries to work on (semi, display, solar, battery) Some very capable and aggressive people that are driven to success A strong legacy of fantastic technology products

Cons

Lots of political in fighting Focus is shifting from a technology company to an operational company, Finance and legal are becoming the dominant force of the company CEO and CFO seem to push to have as much outsourced to China as possible CFO, formerly in the oil industry, is making most key product decisions in the company, bad for the company

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Cons

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Pros

Strong place to start your career. If you do the Fusion Program you will learn a lot. Good training and benefits. Amazing Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Coworkers are smart and grounded people.

Cons

Stingy with salary, raises, and promotions. The engineer roles are broken up into Jr and Senior so the title progression goes Engineer I, I Sr, II, II Sr, etc which slows career progression and pay. Only the CA office gets extra pay due to the expense of living there, even if the MA office is expensive.

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