Lam Research reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(2,417 total reviews)
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Tim Archer

94% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Lam Research has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,417 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lam Research employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Apr 2, 2019

Ok place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is good. Really smart and friendly co-workers. Good culture of safety. Good gender equality and maternal/paternal leave.

Cons

Work life balance is not great - long hours are the norm. Always a new crisis, some caused by bad upper management decisions. Constantly fighting for resources to do your job. Lots of repetitive tasks and making power points, not so much intellectual tasks worth hiring PhDs for. Information gets siloed - the company still has not adapted from its smaller company tribal knowledge know-and-ask-your-coworkers arrangement to its larger size.

3.0
Feb 22, 2019

Incredibly great and incredibly terrible

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compressed schedule is great for work/life balance, coworkers are usually helpful and informative. Great experience for the tech sector.

Cons

You need to suck up to the right people here because favoritism is rampant. The supervisors will believe whoever their friends are and no one else if an issue arises. The managers are disconnected from what is happening on the floor so they are about as helpful as a football bat. The manufacturing instructions provided can be quite vague, which seems out of sync for a company that puts emphasis on the quality of their products. There are way too many stories about sexism in this company, but hopefully they are being addressed now that the CEO is gone.

2.0
Feb 4, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are great. It is a thriving industry for the time being.

Cons

Weak management; never had a one on one interface with my manager in six months. I was working as a temp. through Superior and was trained and working as a backup lead, but was told it could be two years before being hired on full time. Ultimately, if you're not hired direct through a veterans preference programs you're going to have a rough time getting an actual position. They are also are very disorganized for a tech. company, with little to no "rollout" for new programs. Specifically, if they have a new safety policy, they don't take the proper steps to implement; they would rather reprimand than train. I was also promised a training bonus, and I trained two individuals, but I never received said bonus. I would avoid unless you have a guaranteed way of getting hired on (Veteran, Nepotism, etc.).

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