Good place to work - Senior Technical Project Manager Applied Materials Employee Review

4.0
Oct 1, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Applied has good benefits, pay is very good, and they are the leader in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry.

Cons

As with any large enterprise there is a lot of bureaucracy and competing goals and teams. There is a lot of kingdom building especially at the VP to senior management level. Way too many VP's, senior directors and senior management. Not enough people to do the work.

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Pros

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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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