Toxic Culture - Material Handler Applied Materials Employee Review

1.0
15 Jul 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, Holidays, You can show up to work whenever and leave whenever because there is no form of supervision on the floor.

Cons

There is no manager. There is someone hired as the manager but they are rarely on site. Coworkers can lie to HR without any evidence and just will go through. It has happened to at least 4 people who I know. You can just come at whatever time you want and take as many breaks as you want without any form of write up or warning. People show up 30-45 minutes late, take double the time for lunch and leave half an hour early. Somehow these people get overtime EVERY pay period. Its quite the mystery how, maybe something to do with nepotism and or favoritism. There is no expectation on your job performance. People make mistakes constantly and we were not able to tell them they did something wrong so the person will make the same error daily. Nepotism. There are a ton of families working here all over the campus and at all levels of the organization . That means if you are not family you probably won't get promoted or a higher position.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
8 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

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.

Cons

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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