KLA reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,981 total reviews)
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Rick Wallace

90% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

KLA has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,981 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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3.0
Jun 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work with very good, smart people, lean org gives chance to streatch skills to next level, rotate to muliple areas, Senior Ops managment focused. Rest gives you a chance to build skills by quick rotations to gain diverse experience. This will allow you to improve skills\resumes prior to next job internally or externally.

Cons

lean org, lack of common financial tools for forecast and analysis, lack of leadership\vision in finance managment. There has been gap in strong leadership in finance group since John Kispert moved to Operations. Lack of direction, focus on purpose, value add to organization is tough to come by in resent years. Upper finance managment lacks abilty to force up or out mentality with senior leaders who struggle to build good teams.

4.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large company with great benefits. In the heart of Silicon Valley with some of the brightest professionals in the world. When times are good for the company they are usually good for the employees.

Cons

Being in the semiconductor industry means large swings up and down. KLA-Tencor is more than willing to cut headcount to satisfy shareholders. The frantic pace of work never seems to let down. Stress at all levels.

3.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's(or was) a good company to start with after college. But they get you in cheap. You have to work hard for long hour. The time was good before the merge but went down hill afterward. You could gain experience at KLA and management supports all the training you want on job related or not. When you worked there after three or four years, the people came in with you were all gone. Let you feel it's time for you to leave. If not, you will be training the new guys with higher salery than you. Because they won't care once you are in.

Cons

It's very hard to get up the ladder.

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