Challenging company with new leadership and emerging growth opportunities. - Finance Manager Applied Materials Employee Review

3.0
5 Sept 2013
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Pros

* new growth opportunities emerging with addition of new executive leadership * Challenging industry * a focus on process improvement and efficiency * competitive pay * Strong focus on employee well being and benefits.

Cons

* can be bureaucratic and top heavy with management, resulting in delayed decisions. * employees are not always empowered. * Work/Life balance is lacking. little respect for personal space and time. * ERP systems are inefficient * cyclical and very mature industry, results on a lot of pressure on margins and cost cutting measures.

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1.0
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Pros

This is a company with a great future and overall many smart and talented work colleagues.

Cons

There are pockets of poorly managed teams and the Global Sourcing and Procurement Team is one of them. Working for GSP was a soul crushing experience. On a regular basis, I witnessed and experienced mobbing, gaslighting, bullying, senior leaders retaliating and weaponizing the 360 feedback program for their own personal gain, senior leaders taking credit for other peoples work, long tenured leaders abusing their relationships within HR, regular staff crying and people admitting to seeking professional help due to the toxic work environment…ptsd in GSP is real. And to top it off, Applied’s most senior leadership have known of these issues for years.

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