Overall it is a good place to work, the benefits are competitive, and the people you work with are intelligent. - Technical Support Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

The company is large, and comes with all the inherent problems of a larger company: a lot of middle management - sometimes more people doing the talking rather than the actual work. Some management are better individual contributors than managers, and are only promoted to management based on seniority, so may not be good at managing people. The promotion process is slow, and salary increase is slow for individual contributors. A lot of politics and processes.