A warning to process engineers - Process Engineer Lam Research Employee Review

1.0
5 July 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

See cons. Toxic and unlawful enviornment.

Cons

would not recommend any process engineering roles at this organization. The haphazard attitude of management in the 3D-NAND deposition group is only compensated for by their dishonesty and lack of accountability. This has led to half of the group leaving; including people at the director level. Furthermore, there is a severe lack of safety: in late-January Lam sent a group of engineers to China during the viral outbreak. Management claims they were not aware of this outbreak when they sent people, but all of the Chinese-based Lam employees knew about it. Bringing up this fact to management and HR gets no response. Additionally, on the same day the US cancelled all flights to China due to the coronavirus, one of the US-based employees, who returned two days earlier from China, was told they should have stayed. This employee was also not informed to quarantine despite asking management earlier, because, at the time of the outbreak, Lam was not aware this employee went China. How can Lam not account for the very employees they ask to travel? Again, management and HR have no answer.

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5.0
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Pros

Good co workers and people to work with

Cons

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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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