Credit goes to talkers. Performance review only depends on relationship to the manager - Systems Engineer KLA Employee Review

2.0
Nov 13, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good company history. Pay average though very slow growth. Follow the laws. Smart engineering people. People in application team or system team get good visibility.

Cons

Very political, same as some other people said, no management, only co-ordinates. Brilliant people without strong connections try to hide their talent to avoid being targets. Almost no regular career path for average engineers. Poor project management but no one pays for it. The who generate more bugs get more credit as the bug list shows they are busy, sometimes in order to show they are working they even delay the fixes. The team worked well only in down-turn as bushitting was not allowed. In up-turn, the managers hire more than enough but without much team performance improvement. A lot of email and meeting tricks. Some people grab other people's rights of speaking. Arbitrary performance review depending on only the relationship to the manager. No peer review, fake upstream review, and useless company wide chat board as people dare not to speak the truth. Most managers are good at creating PPT, translating the words, information control(avoiding engineers to know essential information), and getting credits. Cheap patent awards. Creative ideas not encouraged if without manager's involvement. Bad IT support. Many times after the IT team install something, your PC gets extremely slow.

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Pros

If you’re looking for a place where accountability doesn’t exist and you can do the bare minimum while getting paid maximum overtime, this is your spot. No approval needed, no questions asked—just stay late, watch YouTube, and collect your paycheck (plus free food if you linger long enough). Weekends are basically a free-for-all since the people who are supposed to supervise are either absent or the worst offenders.

Cons

This place is what happens when a parent company buys a smaller one and then completely forgets it exists. There is zero meaningful oversight. Management knows exactly what’s going on—they just don’t care as long as quotas are eventually met. Efficiency, integrity, and actual productivity mean nothing here. Documentation is either nonexistent or completely useless, full of errors and missing critical information. Parts are constantly missing, and instead of fixing the system, people exploit it to justify delays and stretch their hours. The entire operation rewards time-wasting over competence. The culture actively punishes anyone who tries to work a normal, honest 8-hour day. Want recognition or a raise? Better start padding your hours. The more time you burn, the more management “appreciates” you. It’s not about results—it’s about how long you can pretend to be working. Managers, being salaried, conveniently disappear when it matters most—nights and weekends—while turning a blind eye to the dysfunction they fully understand. Leadership isn’t absent by accident; it’s absent by choice.

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