Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣應用材料股份有限公司 _Applied Materials Taiwan
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The benefits follow US-company standards, but that’s about it.
Taiwanese at its core despite the American exterior—don’t treat this company like a US company. If you don’t know how to curry favor with the right people when you first join, you’re guaranteed to be blacklisted by your colleagues. If you’re not part of the boss’s inner circle, no matter how much you do, it’s useless. Many colleagues are of poor caliber, and there are plenty who take credit for others’ work. While repairing equipment inside the fab, I was even cursed at by a senior colleague. The key issue is that newcomers are given no time or space to learn. You’re thrown straight into on-call duty, and when something happens, you’re the one left to shoulder the responsibility. They even publicly humiliate people during meetings—how can that person be a leader? They’re as obedient as dogs to TSMC customers, but throw their weight around internally.
Political infighting is severe, especially among upper management. Yet when layoffs come around, they suddenly become a US company again. Truly pathetic.