Great place to work if you are prepared to sacrifice personal life - Software Manager KLA Employee Review

3.0
Oct 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Cutting-edge technology. Exceptionally talented engineers. Above average compensation and reasonable benefits. Opportunity to travel to interesting places. Very cosmopolitan work environment.

Cons

There is a culture and unwritten expectation to work long days, weekends and give up vacation time. Also expect to deal with emails and phone calls in the evenings and attend conference calls in the middle of the night. Too many layers of management and too much red-tape. Many senior managers are in redundant positions and often seem to create confusing and conflicting messages between execs and the teams doing the work. Formal procedures and processes are taken too far beyond their intent and designed purpose.

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Cons

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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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