Good place to be in the down turn. - Engineer Lam Research Employee Review

4.0
Mar 23, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Strong core values. Very customer focused. Solid opportunities for engineering development. Stable management team. Sizable amount of cash on the balance sheet. Market leader in the etch space.

Cons

Significant cut back of support staff during down turn but didn't reduce the expectations of engineering projects during the same time period. Expectations of long hours. Work life balance takes a back seat to getting projects done. Promotion opportunities are often filled by outside canidates.

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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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