Applied Materials

Work-life balance is good.

Travel opportunities to Israel and Southeast Asia.

Pretty interesting domain if you are interested in the domain more than software.

Cab facilities, WFH, and other boring stuff.

Good for well-settled people who just want to raise their kids in Bangalore.

Pathetic technology stack to work with.

All the new tech will be discussed and developed secretly in Israel and will be handed over to the India team after 2-3 years for maintenance.

No training plan for lateral hires. You need to roam around and ask everyone about the legacy framework that they use.

Any new ideas and tech suggestions from India are always ignored and suppressed, especially in the AI/ML domain.

Too many meetings and too many reorganizations. Half the time gets wasted in convincing people from the other side.

All the managers are old guys who joined the company as a fresher and don't align well with new managers and architects. That's why so many new guys leave. And every manager keeps a prodigy with them who gets all the good work and promotions, while others are being ignored.

Currently, there is a trend to hire everyone from GE, probably to imitate all the failures from there here.

It's just a regular offshore account of an MNC where all the cost-cutting and maintenance work happens. Nothing different.

Grow a spine to own things in India.

Change the management.

Stop hiring oldies and hire freshers as well.

Hire women (current ratio is 1:20).