Toxic Environment and micromanagement - Senior Software Engineer Lam Research Employee Review

1.0
5 Dec 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Don’t fall for a higher pay .

Cons

Middle management is terrible Lot of micromanagement. Managers don’t have vision they just agree what counter part says. Far from IT industry. Leads/managers assign work while they are leaving for the day and expect to be completed by next morning, so you have to sit late and work. Once you join here there won’t be a personal life you just need to work and if you say something then hear long lectures. It’s not a IT company it’s actually runs like a manufacturing mindset.

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5.0
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Pros

Good co workers and people to work with

Cons

Not converting to full time employee causes issues with feeling not being part of the firm or the team

2.0
30 Apr 2026
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Pros

Good pay with decent benefits.

Cons

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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