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      KLA

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      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (1,975 total reviews)
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      Rick Wallace

      91% approve of CEO

      82% positive business outlook

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      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Senior management

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      KLA has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,975 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
      May 28, 2009

      Take a job at KLA -- be ready to be treated like a contract employee.

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      High level of technology. Projects are well funded.

      Cons

      Engineering staff treated as commodities. Frequent culling of the ranks based on arbitrary criteria. Bias against older employees. Engineers are completely cowed in this company -- they are afraid to even ask questions in company meetings.

      2.0
      Mar 24, 2009

      Disillusioned

      Mechanical design engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are very competent and able engineers working at KLA-Tencor, most of which have a passion for designing and engineering quality products. If you work for the right group, you can almost bear all the negatives I'm sure other people have written about in their reviews (which are all pretty accurate).

      Cons

      Coming from a mechanical engineer: The management is very politically driven, motivated by the $$$ and deadlines/pressure from the upper echelons, not with whether a product is ready for production. Is this just how business is run these days? There is so much red tape / paperwork to do! Although my job title says "design engineer", design only constitutes about 25% of my actual workload. The other 75% is filling out forms and pushing papers in a bloated and inefficient system in order to get anything released for manufacturing.

      1.0
      Jan 8, 2009

      Great place to work. Compared to what, a penal colony?

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I was an engineer for several years. Most of my colleagues were very intelligent and experienced; a pleasure to work with. The technology was cutting edge and I learned a great deal and was able to contribute a great deal as well.

      Cons

      Endemic back-stabbing, lying, favoritism, and incompetence among the management at all levels. If you were lucky you might get a courageous person as your immediate manager who could shield you from his dictatorial and out-of-touch-with-reality superiors. If you were unlucky such a person would be your boss. Lots of turnover. The best people I knew have already left or been forced out.

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