Management is insular and have no sense of personal or professional integrity - treat engineers as consumables - Anonymous employee Applied Materials Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great at solving problems Great with customers Good at identifying potential business opportunities

Cons

Always in fire fighting mode Really poor upper management that over commits to customers, over-works and under compensates and poorly rewards the engineers Upper management is tone deaf to poor employee morale, and continuously swing from reckless hiring to downsizing

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