Job is secure until it isn't - Test Technician Lam Research Employee Review

1.0
31 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Ok pay -Guaranteed overtime pay -Actual employees on the floor are pretty cool most of the time -Benifits -Free shoes

Cons

-Pay is never adjusted to what is actually fair IF at all -People in leadership positions often make less than the people they are in charge of since Lam doesn't raise your pay unless you fight tooth and nail and they generally hire new people at higher rates just to get them in the door. -HR doesn't care unless it's something political in nature -Management is awful- always in meetings or just never where you need them and then they descend in masses and you always end up with too many in charge and not enough people fixing the problem -Pass down from shift to shift is god awful and tons of problems stem from this alone. -You don't have time to get a decent meal -Employees aren't motivated because there is no one holding them accountable -Blame game is huge in the culture -Different shifts are like rival gangs -Lazy incompetent leadership at all levels

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Lead business and overview of business

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Pay is market rate or slightly higher. Smart new fresh grads join every year. They work hard.

Cons

Avoid Dielectric Etch Org as much as you can. Both product and process engineering. Constant Pressure, extreme long work hours, You are working 7/8 AM to 9/10PM, need to work on weekends because of lack of tool times. High level management yelling, screaming in meetings for anything trivial. If CVP wakes up not happy that day, someone will get yelled at in either large or small meetings for small things. THIS IS Dielectric Etch Culture at Lam. This place is a cesspool of nepotism. Even director levels are being yelled at constantly in meetings for various reasons, if he or she is not favored by the CVP. If a mediocre engineer or director who is liked by CVP, he will have much easy time cruising through with minimal effort and knowledge. ... If you are fresh PhD from top or mid tier schools, expect 80hr work weeks, and if you are not lucky, wait for 4 years to be promoted from lvl 3 to 4 level and stuck with no options to move around because you are stuck in Semiconductor equipment industry and other orgs in Lam won't take you. There are many junior engineers with excellent work ethic stuck doing the same things for half a decade without a move in their career. But if you are good at lip service, your life will be easier. Do not trust the general statement of Lam has good culture, it is very very dependent on which Org inside Lam.

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