Good but ... - Anonymous employee Applied Materials Employee Review

4.0
16 June 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation package, know-how, international environment, complexity of engineering problems challenging.

Cons

Political decisions, lack of business engineering tools, too many management levels, old-timers Amat almost untouchable, on-off kind of approach (spoil or cut). Culture and values are nice but are only on the paper...

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