Lam Research reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,737 total reviews)
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Tim Archer

92% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Lam Research has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,737 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lam Research employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Mar 21, 2016
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Pros

-Last year around 20 people from Tech left Lam India.Great job young stars. Good work environment,govt job in India. Easy life,people join as fresher and stay till retirement.Every 6 months you receive an increment,provided you keep your lead and manager happy.travel to US for dev team only .9-5 job. overalll if you dont have dreams to learn technology,and you are silly,then its the best choice.

Cons

-PF transfer claim ,doesnt get approved every time you request through online portal(people are bit old fashioned,so only paper work){pathetic}it may take you a year to get your pf transferred .Not only with me,but a few more people are their in line. -Bad food,very bad,not sure how people are eating it up,and max seem comfortable with that .Even managers have their food outside office everyday. -no non veg allowed in cafeteria ,as MD is a veg guy, -Annual day does happen,but a boring one,no drinks,go and have pathetic food.FYI:drinks available for delegates separately -No cabs facility -,a lot of processes for a simple solution. -few who keeps on talking,and by 6 will leave the office,but dont prefer in finding a quick solution to a problem and solve it out. -A day before delegates visit to India,there would be announcement on dress properly,cleaning stuff will happen ,and suddenly for 2 days cafeteria food also improve,all sort of non-sense happens. -Your hard work will always be taken by your lead. -US should take control of the things happening at Lam India,or best is change the MD,people had enough of him.

3.0
Jun 6, 2017
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Pros

Being a semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer challenges and scope for improvements are plenty. Company growth has been significantly great so far, unlike other offshore business we don't work entirely in US shift timing. Certain level of Automation on ERP has taken care of non value added transactions.

Cons

Indian management in operations is being Mismanaged. Group manager doesn't have relevant experience to guide operations particularly Procurement, managers don't usually get freedom to drive the function, Lack of judgement in hiring have led to hiring wrong managers and placement issues causing workload imbalance and overload. To manage with this imbalance group manager has no concerns to work life balance. To cover up the bad metric Indian management diverts the team form critical deliverables to just show improvements in quarterly reviews, The whole operations now knows the fact that delaying or not carrying out these silly tasks given by local management means bad luck with career growth opportunities within the organisation. When it comes to hiring we had highest referrals submitted in early days but due to high rejections we no longer send referrals. Candidates appearing for job interviews are not clear of expectations those who are rejected get selected in other top companies for much higher designation. It is also known that most of the candidates are lured with good salary package to step down from their current designation to handle silly role and tasks.

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Thank you for your review on Glassdoor. Lam India is rapidly growing by building on its leadership and management strength. At Lam India we are guided by our Core Values, which include “mutual trust and respect” and “open communication”. We believe that our Open Door policy truly encourages our employees to be able to reach out to their management team as, and when, they need to. Employee satisfaction is important to us and we appreciate your candid feedback. We encourage employees to give feedback to their team and supervisors to foster a greater sense of teamwork and to apply our established escalation process which supports respectful resolution of disagreements. – Lam Research
3.0
Aug 22, 2016

Great Industry to work for

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Pros

Cutting edge technology and is always a thrill to work here. Lam USA has a great work culture, however lam india is pathetic

Cons

Very slow growth both profession wise and salary wise. There is no escalation path since all the mangement are interdependent and have been in the company forever. Lot of politics which is used to present the data to Lam USA.

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