Pros: It is good to work here if you are a scientist.

Cons: The issues included a bad corporate culture and values, ageism, and weird management decisions.

Pros: Stable company, deep tech, HW+SW, stock performing well

Cons: The company has more old-school, slower promotion cycles and significantly lesser RSUs than traditional big tech.

Pros: The company has great challenging products and some smart people.

Cons: Low compensation - When answering a question on 7% inflation (CY22) and how KLA is keeping up with it, the CEO responded that those who work in KLA shouldn't be motivated by compensation. For those who do look for financial motivations should look for other companies. This slipped out 40 mins after saying contradicting statements that KLA is ensuring compensations are competitive. Age diversity is a problem and often creates project/product hiccups. COVID overworked environment starting to take a toll and compensation is not enough for the extra amount of work put in. They are giving new hires higher base pay but the medium projection will equalize. Some employees who stay long term don't really care about the company's success. Those who do leave early due to better opportunities or KLA's inability to keep talent. This company has management problems and cannot be fixed if the head is behaving like that.