Incredibly great and incredibly terrible - Anonymous employee Lam Research Employee Review

3.0
Feb 22, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compressed schedule is great for work/life balance, coworkers are usually helpful and informative. Great experience for the tech sector.

Cons

You need to suck up to the right people here because favoritism is rampant. The supervisors will believe whoever their friends are and no one else if an issue arises. The managers are disconnected from what is happening on the floor so they are about as helpful as a football bat. The manufacturing instructions provided can be quite vague, which seems out of sync for a company that puts emphasis on the quality of their products. There are way too many stories about sexism in this company, but hopefully they are being addressed now that the CEO is gone.

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Cons

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