Lam Research reviews

No work life balance if you want to advance within the management team. Management team not very transparent and forthcoming when it comes to employee performance feedback. They have there own agenda and preset game plans for advancement and will manipulate situations by omitting or spinning information in order to fulfill that game plan. If you want to make it through the down turns do not change roles to expand skillset and become "T-Shaped". Stick with one department and ride to the top. Lastly, this most recent layoff was for "Cost Savings" reasons. A LOT of long time (10+ years) employees were laid off. If you reward people for their success and achievements to retain them, don't then lay them off to due to the cost of retaining that talent you recognized.

To be absolutely clear, the recent elimination of temps and layoffs were for one purpose and one purpose only to appease the stock market. Study the financials and there is no reason to make such massive cuts. But that is what you get when your company is held at something above 80% by institutional investors. As a senior exec, with millions riding on the stock and these investors, you do what they allude to. (Then as was here, within a week of the cuts, the CEO staff received their "incentive" pay outs, look at the SEC reports, it is shocking). This has truly exposed the hypocrisy of senior management that speaks a good game about caring for it's employees, but really only care about their massive compensation.