Views as a field process engineer - Field Process Engineer Lam Research Employee Review

5.0
17 Dec 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lam has proven itself to be a company that cares about the employees who work for them. Most everyone that I have talked to have always had positive things to say and rarely do they view it as just another job. There are several resources available to learn about the different tools that they manufacture and there's a fairly good support structure built in to answer questions that come up. The company has very competitive benefits available to the employees. As a field engineer, the dynamic is a bit different since you work at a customer site, but the team that I have had to work with has been outstanding and just great people to be with.

Cons

As a field engineer, there are activities and events that you can miss out on being in the field. Some of the tool information can be a bit difficult to find due to the information coming from an acquired company, but I expect that to improve in time.

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5.0
11 June 2026
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Pros

Lead business and overview of business

Cons

Too many travelling to international

2.0
11 June 2026
Recommend
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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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