Too many quarterly meetings. Focus more on the short term making the numbers... - Anonymous employee Lam Research Employee Review

3.0
Sep 22, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people are great. Decent flexibility with work schedules.

Cons

Different quarterly meetings every month. I feel like I am always working on preparing on some quarterly meeting to inform management what business change since a week ago. I seem to have of them after the merger. Also, it feel like the company is less focus on long term growth and more on meeting short term Wall Street numbers to justify the merger. Finally, the layer of management increased after merger and they are still hiring higher level managers while laying off lower level individuals who does the grunt work.

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