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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
      3.0
      Aug 4, 2008

      Good engineers, lots of politics

      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Technologies used are interesting. There are a lot of top rate engineers with great ideas. Top management is good and asks a lot of great questions to middle management to make sure things are on track.

      Cons

      Lots of politics in upper middle management. Good ideas are often crushed by personalities backing pet projects or career advancement. Also there are divisions (not just product divisions) in the company where bad projects can hide out, wasting money and resources of the company. Maybe being able to sustain boondoggle projects for years and still be successful is a mark of a truly "great" company.

      4.0
      Jul 23, 2008

      Great breadth of opportunities on an international stage in a company that is not aging gracefully

      Senior product marketing manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The breadth of projects available and the pockets of talent and ideas available can be amazing if you know where to look and are willing to do the work to cut across divisional boundaries to make the connections. The opportunities to move across a wide range of products and job roles within the company are quite good. I think it would be quite easy to spend an entire working career within KT by moving between job functions and product groups. International exposure both to external customers and internal co-workers / support groups, is part of the day-to-day routine. If you like exposure to a broad range of cultures and places, it's hard to beat KT.

      Cons

      Firefighting is rewarded. Preventing fires is not. This leads to a lot of difficult, demoralizing diversion from core development activities. Innovation outside of certain narrow corridors is very very hard. The company had become big enough that it squashes ideas that don't immediately fall into a certain well worn path.

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