Data Engineering at Applied Materials
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L5 senior data engineer at Applied Materials sits around $260K total comp from 121 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of AWS, Azure and Databricks, according to current job listings. Applied Materials pays data engineers slightly above other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 3.9 on Glassdoor, a little above the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at Applied Materials reads neutral and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 1 data engineering role is open right now.
Applied Materials data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Applied Materials offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Applied Materials employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent Applied Materials events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- LayoffOct 2025Layoff
- Exec departureSep 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureJul 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Applied Materials data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools Applied Materials data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
SQLApplied Materials data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
Practice for the Applied Materials loop
Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.
Preparing for the Applied Materials loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Applied Materials with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Applied Materials interview difficulty
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Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
- 02
76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
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5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition