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* Posted anonymously by employees (updated Nov 14, 2009)

KLA-Tencor CEO and Director Rick Wallace

Rick Wallace

CEO and Director

30% Approve

“Neutral”

3.0
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  • Nov 14, 2009

    2.0

    KLA-Tencor Mechanical Design Engineer in San Jose, CA:   (Past Employee - 2009)

    Pros

    Good cutting edge technology. Real engineering tasks to work on. Interesting problems to solve. Technically bright people to work with.

    Cons

    Constant cost cutting. Layoffs almost every quarter, leading to overloaded resources and very poor moral. Management tripping over themselves to outsource everything from software development, manufacturing and now engineering of new products as well as support of existing. This too is leading to very poor moral. Especially when you are asked to train your replacement in China or Israel and then watch your job disappear.

    Advice to Senior Management

    How do you sleep at night when you are dumping US employees left and right in a down economy, and then turning around and replacing them with people in China, Israel, India, etc.? I wonder how many former US KT employees have burned up all of their savings or worse, lost their homes as a result of KT's shameless pursuit to outsource anything and everything as fast as possible?

  • Customer Service Engineer in Chandler, AZ:

    “Lots of freedom but lacks a little direction and smart management.”

    Nov 5, 2009

    1 found helpful

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  • Software Manager:

    “Great place to work if you are prepared to sacrifice personal life”

    Oct 26, 2009

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  • Senior Software Engineer in Milpitas, CA:

    “Death by a thousand cuts”

    Oct 9, 2009

    4 found helpful | 1 comment

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  • Anonymous:

    “Great company to work for”

    Oct 6, 2009

    1 found helpful

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  • Manufacturing Engineer in Milpitas, CA:

    “KT a great place to work. LOL”

    Aug 23, 2009

    3 found helpful | 1 comment

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  • Senior Product Marketing Manager in San Jose, CA:

    “Past its prime and not adapting to the future”

    Aug 28, 2009

    1 found helpful

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  • Anonymous:

    “Long-term employment is possible for some, but not all”

    Aug 15, 2009

    1 found helpful

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  • Marketing Director in San Jose, CA:

    “A good place to work when the market was good”

    Aug 12, 2009

    1 found helpful | 1 comment

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  • Finance Manager in Milpitas, CA:

    “A good place to work”

    Aug 18, 2009

    1 comment

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1 - 10 of 86 KLA-Tencor Reviews
KLA-Tencor Overview (KLAC )
Web
www.kla-tencor.com
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Size
5000+ Employees, $2B+ Revenue
HQ
Milpitas, CA
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