good place to work in general - Staff Engineer Lam Research Employee Review

4.0
12 June 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It is not very demanding as other companies in the valley. Most of the engineers have been working at Lam for more than 10 years. There are not many people leaving the company because they are either comfortable with the company or they can not find other job since the industry is pretty small compare to other industry.

Cons

There is not much of career development available.There is not much of hiring going on. The company is pretty stable and the employees have very little chance to move around. Since there is not much hiring it is difficult to move up to higher positions.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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