Okay place to work if you chose to ignore the overbearing politics and rampant favoritism - Anonymous employee Lam Research Employee Review

3.0
28 Mar 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very customer focused. Solid opportunities for engineering development if you are in the right group. Stable management team. Sizable amount of cash on the balance sheet. Market leader in the etch space.

Cons

Work-life balance gets lowest priority. Frustratingly unbelievable favoritism and politics. Promotion opportunities are filled only by people in the "inner circle" and deserving and hard-working people get ignored and side-tracked and eventually leave.

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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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