Does Lam Research pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Lam Research employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Lam Research. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Lam Research?

82% of Lam Research employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Lam Research 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Lam Research?

Process Engineer (106) , Field Service Engineer (79) , Mechanical Engineer (57) , Software Engineer (48) , Engineer (47) , Program Manager (41) , Product Engineer (39) , Field Service Engineer (FSE) (36) , Senior Process Engineer (35) , Manager (34) , Engineering Technician (29) , Senior Software Engineer (29) , Final Test Technician (28) , Test Technician (28) , Director (27)

What are the pros of working at Lam Research according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits relative to industry" ((in 269 reviews)); "Small group culture is good" ((in 178 reviews)); "Great people to work with and learn from" ((in 173 reviews)); "The working group is good and the pay is good" ((in 138 reviews)); "Strong Core Values" ((in 94 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Lam Research according to real employee reviews?

"no work life balance and too busy" ((in 195 reviews)); "A bad manager will soon be replaced with a different one, and work roles change as well." ((in 57 reviews)); "If you don't like working a lot or long hours don't look here." ((in 33 reviews)); "Upper management are clueless, losing a dollar to save a dime—no, they will not listen to you no matter how much you and all of your coworkers warn them." ((in 30 reviews)); "At times work and life balance can be challenging" ((in 30 reviews))

What are employees saying about Lam Research layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Lam Research layoffs and their outlook for job security at Lam Research in 2026.

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4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,407 total reviews)

Tim Archer

93% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Culture & values

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.7

Senior management

3.6

Work/Life balance

Lam Research has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,407 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lam Research employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews

1.0

Mar 1, 2020

Good for 2-3 years as a starter

Process engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Awesome colleagues who are smart, hardworking, driven, and nice. Big corporate training that is good for new colleague grads to start from. Real world industrial problems to solve.

Cons

Lots of politics going on. Favoritism pervails. Learning curve slows down drastically after a few years. Very very very bad work life balance with not enough pay. Management does not value employees enough.

3.0

Apr 2, 2019

Ok place to work

Product engineer iv

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.

3.0

Feb 22, 2019

Incredibly great and incredibly terrible

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

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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