politics and bureaucracy rule the workplace - Anonymous employee Lam Research Employee Review

2.0
27 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

people are generally pretty smart and the company is able to stay ahead of the competition with a few good products and good execution

Cons

this is a very political workplace where people spend too much time polishing their ppt presentations in hope of impressing upper management at the inevitable weekly / monthly / quarterly review meeting (people seem to spend half their time preparing slides or presenting them in review meetings). there is very little room for decision or creativity at the individual level; in fact creativity and risk taking are generally discouraged. the culture can be pretty aggressive too.

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