Ok place to work - Product Engineer IV Lam Research Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation is good. Really smart and friendly co-workers. Good culture of safety. Good gender equality and maternal/paternal leave.

Cons

Work life balance is not great - long hours are the norm. Always a new crisis, some caused by bad upper management decisions. Constantly fighting for resources to do your job. Lots of repetitive tasks and making power points, not so much intellectual tasks worth hiring PhDs for. Information gets siloed - the company still has not adapted from its smaller company tribal knowledge know-and-ask-your-coworkers arrangement to its larger size.

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2.0
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Pros

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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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