Lam Research Reviews

Pros

Great company culture including mutual respect and cooperative between groups

Cons

Demanding work environment and heavy workload

Pros

Decent salary, excellent benefits, nominal growth potential. Requesting time off is very easy, and the people are very smart.

Cons

Management is a bit top heavy and promotions are almost only time-based, less merit. At times work can get out of control and time in the clean-room is limited causing even more frustration.

Advice to Senior Management

Please reconsider massive layoffs, I witnessed far too many of my friends leave and lose their jobs here.

Pros

Very collaborative team work oriented environment, really nice people across senior management down to factory floor, many possibilities for career advancement.

Cons

Very technically oriented environment, learning curve steep, fast paced business cycles, depending on work, could get repetitive, and engineering oriented.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing, upgrade business IT equipment, new more fringe benefits for Livermore, don't cut costs where it hurts the performance of workers.

Pros

Its a good place to work if you like to do process engineering jobs, because you will get tons of it. the company is immigration friendly (useful tip for people on visa). Profit sharing practices are very transparent and good. benefit packages are good.

Cons

The atmosphere is highly political and promotion system is not fair.
Middle management is not competent and does a very lousy job of executing and transferring objectives from top management. Too much nepotism.
Work pressure is at times unreasonable.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep an eye on your middle management !

Pros

The people work together to make the company successful. Great products and very good internal communication at headquarters. Employees treated fairly and have a lot of pride in their work. Also very competent employee that are recognized when successful.

Cons

Sometimes very stressful work environment. The customers are very demanding. Specific Field Offices are sometimes difficult to communicate with and achieve goals. The Field Offices sometimes have a difficult time understanding the customer's needs leading to overall inefficiences.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue leading the company to strive for excellence. Focus our efforts to improve our customer satisfaction by accurately understanding their needs and providing solutions to their problems. Provide realistic expectations to the customers after careful analysis and then meet or exceed those expectations.

Pros

I think the company culture is awesome, they have excellent pay, benefits. They value and recongnize their high performers appropriately and frequently.

Cons

I dont liek the location, city of Fremont, it is a dead place. WEather is great but do not liek the locality.

Advice to Senior Management

Excellent management leadership capability, I like it all, do not relaly have any adive for management, they are doing their job fine

Pros

It's a good company with good opportunities, but you need to work hard enough to earn them.
The package is above average.
It's technology is one of the best in its industry.

Cons

Not performing well in acquisitions.
You may feel hitting a ceiling after years of work.
The industry is in obvious down and up cycles so you may need to experience some bad things during the down turn.

Advice to Senior Management

Generally the management is good and the company do work to improve its management. The company proves itself that it suceeds in building a better and better organization.

Pros

- Good overall business plan
- Excellent co-workers
- Robust etc technology
- Good benefits relative to industry

Cons

- Long working hours
- No significant growth prospects
- Some groups within Lam are highly political, poorly managed with strong hierarchical and top-down style of management
- Poor treatment of employees at entry level positions

Advice to Senior Management

- ensure all groups within Lam follow core values and exemplary business practices modeled by some groups
- treat all employees well and take employee concerns seriously (happy employees -> better performance -> better products and processes ->ultimate customer satisfaction)

Pros

-Benefits are great! The company takes great care of their people.
-Pay is above average
-Constant evaluation for advancement
-Laid back flexible management
-Most employees are aggressive and will put aside differences and pull together to accomplish a common goal.

Cons

-Employees feel entitled as though the company owes them something besides a paycheck
-Some employees think Mutual Trust and Respect means act fake to your face and complain about you behind your back. I respect people enough to be open and honest with them even if it hurts. That is frowned upon at Lam
-Forced to document all communication to defend yourself when fingers are pointed your way.
-Information is often withheld from another group for fear they will use it against your group... Not open communication.

Advice to Senior Management

Clarify what you mean about each of the core values. (see above)
It is not really appropriate for employees to rate their managers.

Pros

Competitive pay
Competent management
Market leader

Cons

Growth opportunity
Management interest in development

Advice to Senior Management

Embracing different ideas and pass down decision making