Avoid at all costs
Avoid at all costs
Just a paycheck, nothing else.
Long work hours, no personal life; 10 hours a day is normal, and you need to reply to emails and texts at night. Four hours of meetings every day force you to work in the late evening. Low morale across engineers since something is wrong with the culture. Managers keep pushing without reasonable deadlines.
Rewards are really low for the high-intensity work; pay is low in the Bay Area, and the stuff learned from this company is not that useful for other industries. In addition, managers always ask engineers to think, but there is no autonomy and no time to think through problems. Even if you think, no one will care what you think.
So many directors and managers pull you in different directions; sometimes they have no idea what they are doing.
Management needs to value engineers' effort. You may already see the talent leaving this company.
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Applied Materials Interview Experiences
Mechanical Engineer
Got an email from the hiring manager two weeks after submitting my resume. I had a phone interview on the same day with the hiring manager and two other people. At the end of the interview, I was invited to an onsite interview. The next week, I had
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Meeting with the hiring manager and individual team members under the hiring manager. Interviews went through typical technical questions (beam bending, fluid flow, etc.) and behavioral questions. Afterwards, there was a meeting with the recruiter to
Mechanical Engineer
Very unorganized and unprofessional interview. HR personnel invited people for an interview without knowing the needs of a specific department. There was no planned agenda in the interviewing process. So, what they wanted me to do was, "Do a presenta
Mechanical Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesJune 1, 2018Got an email from the hiring manager two weeks after submitting my resume. I had a phone interview on the same day with the hiring manager and two other people. At the end of the interview, I was invited to an onsite interview. The next week, I had
Mechanical Engineer
United StatesFebruary 9, 2022Meeting with the hiring manager and individual team members under the hiring manager. Interviews went through typical technical questions (beam bending, fluid flow, etc.) and behavioral questions. Afterwards, there was a meeting with the recruiter to
Mechanical Engineer
March 1, 2011Very unorganized and unprofessional interview. HR personnel invited people for an interview without knowing the needs of a specific department. There was no planned agenda in the interviewing process. So, what they wanted me to do was, "Do a presenta
