Manufacturing Engineer 1 - Manufacturing Engineer I Applied Materials Employee Review

5.0
Sep 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place, lets you develop with guidance, no micromanaging

Cons

Too many people in groups that have been working together for too long. It's hard for managers to be effective when the employees they are managing went to school with the manager and have worked with them for 20 years. Shuffling people around and bringing in new faces and new ideas can only benefit this company

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Pros

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.

Cons

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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