Pretty good management but they like to bend over for TSMC. 7.5/10 - Process Engineer Applied Materials Employee Review

4.0
29 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Managers actually treat you like human beings most of the time Able to claim OT (for my position and team at least, it depends) Top vendor company in semicon, competing head to head with LAM (don’t say I never share that LAM is winning)

Cons

Managers recently like to bend over for TSMC and be yes man. The ones who have the suffer are us peasants. Average promotion rate (~2-3years, but can slow down significantly once you hit E3 unless you know how to suck it. But that goes for every company.

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5.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

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

Cons

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1.0
27 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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