KLA reviews

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.

Projects tend to change very fast as the company is extremely reactive to market conditions. If the market opportunity is not clearly defined, or changes during development, then the whole project is canned which can sometimes be frustrating for the development and engineering crew. But most employees would agree that it's better if prevents us to go into a dead end or a commoditized market. Another downside is that the company's benefits are rapidly shrinking in this increasingly competitive environment and one would worry about retention. For most employees, the company seems to not care too much about retention, which sometimes lead to expensive loses of talent or even competition from ex-employees starting their own businesses or joining competitors.