KLA reviews

There is a veil of caring about emplpoyees, but just just like every other company out there, they would rather use CHIPs Act money to enrich C-Suite and have stock buybacks than invest in their employees. They had to lay people off because of perceived market issues but ended up making over $4b that year.

IT management may suddenly decide you did poorly on a review, ignoring all the things you did well...and then put you on a performance plan that is impossible to meet, giving you a "choice" to either quit then or sign up for the plan. I chose the harder option, worked as hard as I could with many unpaid overtime hours to try and keep my job, and in the end they fired me anyway. It's very unclear to me what standards I failed to meet. The tasks I was given included creating a ton of documentation that they can now pass on to the next person who takes my job. The whole thing was disingenuous and manipulative.