After working for a 7 years for a company that enabled and empowered their managers, I couldn't do AMAT - Operations Manager Applied Materials Employee Review

2.0
Jun 24, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

1. Great benefits - Medical, Dental, 401K, Vacation, Sick Time, PTO 2. Stable Company - Over 10,000 employees, 5 billion in revenue

Cons

1. Terrible accountability - Management is all about CYA and nothing about leadership and doing the right thing. 2. Management does such a poor job developing their managers, they end up not trusting them, and therefor restrict the managers' ability to make decisions and implement initiatives.

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Friendliness Stock Purchase Benefits Culture Development

Cons

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4.0
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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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