Lam Research reviews

Absolutely no work life balance- management will tell you that it's important but my manager knows I work a 60+ hours a week and weekends and does nothing (I've asked them for help several times). For a company as profitable as Lam, they are extremely conservative when it comes to hiring. Our orders have skyrocketed but our team size remains the same? Meaning that we have triple the workload but the same team size. People are burnt out and could really use some extra team members to even out the workload. Lam says one of their core values is respect but I've never been treated so poorly by my colleagues. Everyone is overwhelmed and stressed- so naturally they try to throw others under the bus. You really need to document every conversation you have, otherwise, people will try to blame you for everything. The pay is not great for the Bay Area. For the complexity and volume of work that I'm doing, I should at least be paid 90k.

- fear of decision making at lower mgmt levels sometimes means slow process changes - very high stock price means very few RSUs awarded to "regular" employees in recent years - employees below director don't get unlimited PTO and 7-10 of 15 normal PTO days are used by "forced shut downs" so very limited vacation time in first several years of service - I haven't seen a strong push to encourage internal transfers/promotion. new reqs seem to be a surprise when someone is hired. employees aren't encouraged to inquire about transferring within the company.