Horrible CEO. Low pay - Senior Managing Director Lam Research Employee Review

1.0
Jan 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good cafeteria Good health insurance Fast growth and lots of opportunity for grunt work.

Cons

1. The Managing directors just want us to treat the engineers as a body with a brain. PhDs are hired not because they are smart, but because they can go long hours and do rote work. 2. Extremely political environment. You should shut up and follow whatever you were told to do. 3. Too many managers. If you are joining as a engineer, you will spend 80% of your waking hours and weekends doing repeatative trivial work. As managers, we are forced by our upper management to break engineers who try to innovate.

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Pros

* Pay is towards the lower end of the industry, even compared to much smaller companies * Technology is truly amazing. Some brilliant and dedicated engineers work there

Cons

* Pay needs to be about 15% higher. Claims the "budget doesn't allow for it" are tired, considering continuous successes, and ridiculous stock buybacks * Erratic work hours including very late or very early meetings to accommodate global customers * Undue added stress especially for long-term projects. Lam seems to want to placate their customers with "quick turnover"... truly illogical for long-term projects * The return to office fever continues w/ unjustified metrics. Hybrid work setting that was yanked even when ~90% of the role could be performed remotely. The excuse? Quick turnover again. Unreasonable considering the scope of the projects

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