Applied Materials

An age-old conservative company as far as employee growth is concerned.

Software work is not valued here, which might be because it's a materials engineering company.

It's not worth spending the early part of your career here. The work quality is bad, and very few people globally work on good projects. Compensation is negligible; they are just some numbers on paper for the sake of achieving necessary compliances.

Employee work and effort are not valued. After spending some time in this company, one feels as if they have been fooled. Hardworking and talented employees are laughed at and looked down upon by those who get away by not doing good work.

When it comes to rewarding employees, they act as if the employee's effort was not needed and the employee was a fool, hence having to put in so many hours.

There are technically incompetent supervisors in software.

It's a sheer waste of time and talent. Join only if you have no other option anywhere.