Why is Lam Research culture so toxic? I feel stressed out and get anxiety at least once in 2 weeks. If you are/were working at Lam, could you please share your experience. TC:168K Yoe:7 #lamresearch #appliedmaterials #klatencor #intel #apple #asml #renesas
Probably caused by 3/4 dependence on NAND revenue, which is all from 2 Chinese customers; YangTze & CX, Not helped by recent subpoena from MA AG to stop the biz. And to make matter worst; the NYMEX spot commodity price for none-volatile NAND price has been trending down and is now 1/10th DRAM price and 1/30th BOM price for Logic. I can only imagine how Fremont RnD folks felt when India & Korea RnD ctr were opened in less than 1year apart while the new Malaysia mfc campus is bigger than whole AMAT Bowers campus
Until now not even 1 job was transferred to Korea or India. Teams in USA also expanded a lot. There was no off shore fear as such
We shall see in 2023. Buy me lunch when what i said here comes true
Entire semi capex industry is toxic. Amat is same or may be worse
Nah, we are completely opposite of Lam. Since the $400+_150m rev adjustment for China sales stop announcement yesterday, our exposure to China is zero %, and not 75% like Lam. If anything, we hardly have any exposure to cheapskate none volatile memory. Our volatile memory mart exposure is also very low. And we don’t have any plan like those who wanna close entire Fremont to move to Malaysia, Seoul or Bangalore. Toxic environment only happens when your product are door gift keychain
🤦🏻♂️May be you don’t know enough about market share and customers. Please go and find the revenue at customer level .. i know as i work in marketing and sales
Semi equipment industry and fab have a certain culture. If you don’t like it, leave.
Do you consider it as a good culture even in today’s time? Or is it just that we are stuck because of limited options?
No the culture is bad and much worse compared to the past. There are much better options out there, especially for new grads that have a lower barrier to change paths.
I have seen flippant behavior from my manager so many times. I know I’m doing a disservice to myself staying here. I plan on leaving before the end of the year. Hopefully!
Better leave before e actual intent of Malaysia, India & Korean facilities are revealed.
They are open now already right? Lot of folks work there. @zUoX78 what do you mean by revealed?
Is sooo Toxic!! I completely agree, and HR doesn’t do anything is the worst, I’m looking somewhere else!
I thought KLA-tencor and Amat were cool places
Very Toxic due to middle managers and directors
Maybe it’s your team/org or could be location based. People i know in OR, love it there. Dont know anyone in CA
You mean Lam in OR?
I have heard Lam CA has better culture than Lam OR.