OK first job out of grad school, don't stick around - Recensione dipendente - Process Engineer presso Lam Research

3,0
18 mag 2020
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The job is a reasonable transition between grad school and industry. Solid health insurance options and generally good people working there. If your manager likes you, you can move up very quickly, but this isn't guaranteed

Svantaggi

Your job happiness is going to depend largely on customer happiness and your relationship with that customer. If you are fortunate enough to have a US customer, your hours can be reasonable, but if not, good luck. There's a weird culture that emphasizes putting in hours, regardless of output. Coupled to the fact that many people are dependent on this job for their visas, the work culture can be unpleasant. In my time there, there were so many discussions of improving WLB through smarter experiments, automation, etc. I never saw any of this come to fruition, and as we all know, talk is cheap. Get some experience working with high tech equipment and if you aren't promoted in a year or 2, look elsewhere, ideally away from the OEM industry, because this isn't going to get easier. I saw people there for years who worked 12h per day and still didn't get promoted. Fortunately in the early stages of your career, a lot of these skills are translatable within the Bay Area.

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5,0
3 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Good system. Management. Resources. Working on project and you can find all help

Svantaggi

Nothing i cant find yet

2,0
30 apr 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Good pay with decent benefits.

Svantaggi

Highly toxic in certain (not all) business units. Directors and above held to far lower standards than employees. I received a lot of abuse from my manager and when I reacted, she used it against me over the course of five years, resulting in my launching an ER investigation upon which resulted in my termination. (They weren't even adult enough to tell me I was being fired; I found out by accident when I received a termination paycheck). Would love to recommend, but would never recommend Lam based on the treatment I got from my entire leadership chain over a five year period. PS, pretty sure retaliation of this nature is against the law; looking into it.

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