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On Our Way Out

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Applied Materials for less than 1 year
March 26, 2010
Santa Clara, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

This was a great – repeat, GREAT – company. Also, repeat: it was...

Excellent management, career and corporate growth, vision, compensation – we had it all. Perhaps we became spoiled, or...

Read on.

Cons

Poor to awful senior management. They have no respect for any employee lower than a VP, of which we have boatloads. There are an average of 1.3 layoffs per year, with more to come in the near future. Senior management is relocating development and manufacturing to Asia and firing the US-based workforce. Etc. etc.

Advice to Management

Think a bit farther down the road than the close of the stock market tomorrow afternoon.

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