Lam Research reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(2,410 total reviews)
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Tim Archer

94% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Lam Research has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,410 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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2.0
Mar 13, 2019

Great potential

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Pros

Can deliver very detailed experience in semiconductor field. Great benefits.

Cons

Management structure is based on "good ole boys club". Very hard to make headway in forward career progress. Non-professional career relationships plague the manufacturing departments.

1.0
Feb 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Lam has some of the hardest working and intelligent front line employees (manufacturers, material handlers, and field service engineers) in the WFE industry. Unfortunately, these truly brilliant, stellar performers are the minority (10-15%) at this company; and they are Vastly Outnumbered by lazy, inexperienced, or outright unintelligent members of the 'professional' Product Group, Engineering, and Account Team divisions.

Cons

Account Team and Product Group lack of planning (and lack of communication) in the front end design phase, very often results in configuration errors which aren't captured by engineers, schedulers, and program/production managers... most often until the equipment is about to, or has already shipped. This last minute 'churn' results in tools being shipped with too many parts, too few parts, loss of revenue, and customer trust. Greater care/intelligence in the front-end portion of design/slotting, would result in much less 'churn' for front-line employees, and higher level product shipped to consumers.

2.0
Sep 9, 2017

Stabilty

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Pros

Good Stability Good Promotions Flat Organization Structure Extremely high Stock Value

Cons

Pay Raise to lower Initial Pay is too low Only way to earn more is stock If you don't get promoted, you get stuck

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