You like working in a call center? - Engineering Manager Applied Materials Employee Review

Very, very TOP HEAVY (over-managed). Imperial and greedy management style (no one below Managing Director level matters at all, we're all just interchangeable widgets according to them). Legions of VPs, project managers and others trying to make themselves appear important at your expense. The vast majority of jobs here are pedestrian at best. Management historically tends to cut good people when cutting projects instead of re-purposing them. It's all about who you know without apparent regard to what you actually have accomplished. The new downsized cubicles are a total joke and a massive disservice to all who suffer in them. Facilities runs the entire company. The evidence for this is quite plain to see. It is the worst I have experienced in my entire career. Facilities should not be run like a profit center. Endless meetings, preparations for meetings, meetings to plan for meetings (literally), and other mindless related things. A new hot corporate initiative a week or so it seems, 95% of which are not only wasteful, but are in many instances quite actively destructive. This company can completely take over your life if you let it. You want to work 100 hours a week? No problem, it will happen. They literally used to warn about this during the new employee orientations...! Whatever you hire in as, you are likely to remain as. Don't plan a long career here (unless you are a bureaucrat).