Lam Research reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(2,429 total reviews)
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Tim Archer

94% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Lam Research has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,429 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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2K reviews
1.0
Mar 30, 2016

Horrible management, minimal resources

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The engineers are great people. They are hard working, intelligent, and friendly.

Cons

-Management does not respect their employees. They put their shareholders and themselves first before considering the impact to the employees. They are slave drivers without any empathy. -Limited resources are available for a growing company and expanding lab. This is why engineers suffer - because they have to use what little resources are available - and they do the work of 3 people.

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Lam Research Response
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Thank you for reviewing us on Glassdoor. Employee satisfaction is important to us and we encourage you to give feedback to your team and supervisors to foster a greater sense of teamwork and improve manager-employee relations. We are taking steps to address the concerns that have been raised. – Lam Research
2.0
Mar 27, 2016

politics and bureaucracy rule the workplace

Anonymous employee
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Pros

people are generally pretty smart and the company is able to stay ahead of the competition with a few good products and good execution

Cons

this is a very political workplace where people spend too much time polishing their ppt presentations in hope of impressing upper management at the inevitable weekly / monthly / quarterly review meeting (people seem to spend half their time preparing slides or presenting them in review meetings). there is very little room for decision or creativity at the individual level; in fact creativity and risk taking are generally discouraged. the culture can be pretty aggressive too.

2.0
Mar 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-Last year around 20 people from Tech left Lam India.Great job young stars. Good work environment,govt job in India. Easy life,people join as fresher and stay till retirement.Every 6 months you receive an increment,provided you keep your lead and manager happy.travel to US for dev team only .9-5 job. overalll if you dont have dreams to learn technology,and you are silly,then its the best choice.

Cons

-PF transfer claim ,doesnt get approved every time you request through online portal(people are bit old fashioned,so only paper work){pathetic}it may take you a year to get your pf transferred .Not only with me,but a few more people are their in line. -Bad food,very bad,not sure how people are eating it up,and max seem comfortable with that .Even managers have their food outside office everyday. -no non veg allowed in cafeteria ,as MD is a veg guy, -Annual day does happen,but a boring one,no drinks,go and have pathetic food.FYI:drinks available for delegates separately -No cabs facility -,a lot of processes for a simple solution. -few who keeps on talking,and by 6 will leave the office,but dont prefer in finding a quick solution to a problem and solve it out. -A day before delegates visit to India,there would be announcement on dress properly,cleaning stuff will happen ,and suddenly for 2 days cafeteria food also improve,all sort of non-sense happens. -Your hard work will always be taken by your lead. -US should take control of the things happening at Lam India,or best is change the MD,people had enough of him.

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