KLA reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,977 total reviews)
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91% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

KLA has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,977 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The KLA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Apr 10, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good subsidized lunch meals 3 day work

Cons

1) Managers are worst. Management is absolutely insane. Managers are big headed bosses who like to sit on a chair & give orders. They have zero technical skills & knowledge. Few directors have always been managers & did not grow from technical background. So they lack basic idea of problem solving. They are obnoxious and highly egoistic. Entire time you will have to serve their big headed & empty headed ego. 2) They cheat you with the role. They put up their job requirements as mechanical design engineer, however their job role should be project management. All of their designs & core mechanical engineering is handled by outsourced companies in countries like Netherlands etc. As a mechanical design engineer at KLA, all you will do is manage what the others are doing, ordering tools like torque wrench which should be done by procurement teams, managing time schedule and nonsense. You won't even open CAD tools or do any basic engg hand calc to substantiate any design. As a design engineer you will only get to work with stupid shipping boxes & carts (4 frames with 4 wheels). You will also be asked to measure clean room floor dimensions. This is not a mechanical design engineer job. This is the job of facilities team. They misinform you. Probably none of the upper management knows what mechanical design engineer means. All you will do is make storyboard & present others work in reviews. In that also the upper management will fuss over "why in reviewers list, this person is not present, cancel the entire review, put this person's name and then we will do." Such unproductive and idiotic people & things. 3) In your interviews you will not be asked even a single technical question because the hiring managers most of them have zero technical knowledge. They don't even know what to ask. For that they need some knowledge which they don't have. 4) Worst place if you really want to learn or do something in life. Worst work culture. Toxic at times because of the management. Had to take therapy to cope with the idiotic toxic management.

1.0
Nov 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary, RSUs & benefits are great.

Cons

You will be expected to frequently accommodate California hours, and it's not unusual to have meetings at 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00 PM EST. There is a double standard. California employees will complain about early morning meetings and anything after 6:00 PM PST. The company feels like it was <500 middle aged men and then suddenly scaled to 10,000 people while trying to reinvent itself. The systems and processes don't align with the revenue, which leads to lots of chaos. If you're looking for a well run machine, this isn't it. This is bootstrapping your way to a $10B business. Number of vacation days and bonus percentages are low.

3.0
Oct 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is good and hard to find at other companies.

Cons

As with most companies in this type of service industry, you are expected to give a LOT of your life up to save the company money. Weekends, evenings...your time is the company's time. Say you are tired and the response will be to keep going just a little longer.

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