Poor management and feels like you're in high school with politics. - werkgeversreview Engineering Technician metrology bij Applied Materials

1,0
4 mei 2024
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Pluspunten

Decent pay -Beautiful area -Good benefits -Large company, so lots of places to go in terms of career advancement and relocation -If you're a nerd like me who loves to learn and is interested in advanced manufacturing and cutting edge technology, the fab is a heaven

Minpunten

-Contractors and vendors are treated like second class citizens--this bothered me even from an outsider's perspective -Inter-organizational collaboration/relations can be VERY bad -Career advancement entirely at the hand of your direct manager as a technician -Managers imposed arbitrary limits/time-gating on advancement/promotion that aren't even written in policy -Working in a full bunny suit much of the day -Work can be very hard and fast-paced, or very, very slow (most days are very slow). Can't expect much consistency in R&D -Even though the work is largely, blue collar, you will get a lot of office politics and white collar passive aggressiveness in the work culture. You'll find there are many unfriendly, and conniving coworkers. This culture seems to be encouraged. You can end up feeling lonely at work or falling into weird clicks like a high school due to this lack of personability.

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5,0
13 mei 2026
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Wonderful staff - great company all around

Minpunten

Cannot think of any cons.

2,0
8 apr 2026
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Pluspunten

Salary, I was compensated very well, the I hated working there so much that I resigned without anything even lined up. It was a good move for my mental health.

Minpunten

The leadership in general are not very intelligent, disorganized, and uncommunicative. They were decades behind in certain areas that lead to massive inefficiencies and overwork. (Out of respect I will not be specific). I suggested an improvement that would have taken task time down from 8 hours to virtually real time, but the executive Team, in their arrogance, did not allow me to implement the system. Sometime later, the cumbersome, unreliable system was not working and a deadline approaching. I worked 20 hours per day for 7 days and built an entire real time reporting system - then resigned. No one at AMAT was ever helpful. It always seemed an inconvenience to give a colleague outside ones group the time of day. I gained absolutely ZERO new skills or professional development at AMAT all my time there. Many of the employees at the time, including senior management, felt free to publicly express invectives against the current POTUS in their suffering TDS. Another reason I could not work in the environment. Rules for thee and not for me.

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