Bad work life balance | Bad Pay | Good teammates - Process Engineer III Lam Research Employee Review

2.0
Sep 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Teammates believe in helping each other out. Even to a new person, respectable treatment is encouraged. Active steps are being taken to reduce attrition/breakout. Good options to switch teams and move around within the company. Good technical challenges and focus on materials innovation, research. Strong ethics and values of team members and the company in general.

Cons

No work life balance. In escalations and late-night meetings with teams in Asia all the time. No clear/lack of effective management - manager doesn't help prioritize tasks, everything is urgent all the time. Miniscule pay for the number of work hours put in. Removed the gym that was on campus to make more space for employee desks - shows the focus on work and no life. too many meetings with too many people - wastes too many manhours. Working late is the norm because all days goes in useless meetings.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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