Good employer with its limitations - Anonymous employee Lam Research Employee Review

4.0
Sep 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Overall a good company. Compensation is decent. Work schedule is rather flexible for an engineer. Not too stressful if one isn't overly ambitious.

Cons

As a high tech company in the heart of the Silicon Valley, Lam Research can't stand up to other great companies in the area, such as Google, Facebook, to name a few. Granted they are in different industries. But the corporate culture should be comparable. Office politics, even in the engineers' circle, could sometimes become frustrating.

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Pros

Good pay with decent benefits.

Cons

Highly toxic in certain (not all) business units. Directors and above held to far lower standards than employees. I received a lot of abuse from my manager and when I reacted, she used it against me over the course of five years, resulting in my launching an ER investigation upon which resulted in my termination. (They weren't even adult enough to tell me I was being fired; I found out by accident when I received a termination paycheck). Would love to recommend, but would never recommend Lam based on the treatment I got from my entire leadership chain over a five year period. PS, pretty sure retaliation of this nature is against the law; looking into it.

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