Lam sucks - Senior Manager Lam Research Employee Review

1.0
18 Oct 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Technology is the only think that holds this company. Wall Street artificially inflated the stock to keep the company grow. It is about to crash and crash really bad.

Cons

Culture, interdepartmental politics and friction, competition between managers, directors and almost everyone for more influence, power, control, money and entitlements. Bad slave work environment, rigged and hypocritical relationships between top management and bottom management and worker bees.

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Pros

Opportunities to support global activities

Cons

Heavy micromanagement — frequent revisions on ppt to minor details like font size and colors. Frequently calling staffs even after work hours and lunch time. Manager often takes on additional work from other teams without considering current team workload, So the manager appears supportive and “nice” externally but creates additional burden to the subordinates. Manager controls team budget strictly for team-building activities (events and meals), team members feel restrictive and reluctant to participate, for example team members dare not order appetizers, dessert or drinks on top of entrees during team events. Manager used up most of the travel budget. Biz trip and personal travel boundaries are unclear, especially when manager frequently has business trips overlaps with personal travel. Seems like manager using biz trip to get free hotel and free air tickets for PTO.

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