Good Pay, Poor Senior Management Strategy
Good Pay, Poor Senior Management Strategy
Good pay and benefits.
Lots of cash to get things done when needed.
Great people at the working level.
People work together well.
Losing market share even though they claim they are gaining.
Their only strategy is to cut costs and people every quarter.
No real long-term strategy, just quarter-to-quarter financial results.
Constant, disruptive reorgs that set progress back.
Constant outsourcing of jobs, yet they claim employees are their greatest assets.
Great, a real long-term strategy like Apple does. Constant focus on cutting costs is killing the company, and the stock price shows it.
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Applied Materials Interview Experiences
Engineering Manager
Multiple interviews. Topics ranging from background to technical experience to future plans. It seems like this company wants to bring back some of the technical talent that has left in the past couple of years.
Mechanical Engineer II
Got a screening call 3 months after applying. This was a straightforward interview with a few fluid mechanics/gas dynamics related questions. 2 weeks later, I got a call for the 2nd round, which had 5 video call technical interviews of 30 mins each
Applications Engineer
HR group dynamics It was fun but too long and too many people at once, so you were barely able to talk. Plus, it was on Zoom, so there were many technical problems.
Engineering Manager
GermanyJune 19, 2016Multiple interviews. Topics ranging from background to technical experience to future plans. It seems like this company wants to bring back some of the technical talent that has left in the past couple of years.
Mechanical Engineer II
Santa Ana, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2021Got a screening call 3 months after applying. This was a straightforward interview with a few fluid mechanics/gas dynamics related questions. 2 weeks later, I got a call for the 2nd round, which had 5 video call technical interviews of 30 mins each
Applications Engineer
IsraelNovember 7, 2021HR group dynamics It was fun but too long and too many people at once, so you were barely able to talk. Plus, it was on Zoom, so there were many technical problems.
