Four years experience as a senior/staff level process engineer - Staff Process Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
Aug 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You have access to last technology and semiconductor patterns and designs. AMAT is a big company with a lot of equipment, so there’s a lot of opportunities for cross-functional collaboration and opportunities to learn new things. Plenty of opportunities to present at a high level to get exposure.

Cons

Your success is very project dependent (understandably) but you may be stuck on a dead end project or demo with little chance of success for YEARS. Management does not know when to kill failing demos and projects for fear of failure and losing credibility, but kicking the can down the road just makes things worse. Often times, the blame goes to the working level engineers and management still somehow gets promoted.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Fun/enagaging, team based and very welcoming. Tech company

Cons

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1.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

This is a company with a great future and overall many smart and talented work colleagues.

Cons

There are pockets of poorly managed teams and the Global Sourcing and Procurement Team is one of them. Working for GSP was a soul crushing experience. On a regular basis, I witnessed and experienced mobbing, gaslighting, bullying, senior leaders retaliating and weaponizing the 360 feedback program for their own personal gain, senior leaders taking credit for other peoples work, long tenured leaders abusing their relationships within HR, regular staff crying and people admitting to seeking professional help due to the toxic work environment…ptsd in GSP is real. And to top it off, Applied’s most senior leadership have known of these issues for years.

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