Pros: 1. The environment provided challenging work. 2. It was easy to grow with hard work.

Cons: 1. Young new joiners always get more salary than experienced KLA employees 2. Recognition is poor - No salary leveling concept - Staying for long time will drastically impact the salary - When a 5 years experience guy from other company joins KLA, gets almost same salary of 10 years experienced KLA employee

Pros: This is my third time working for this company. Pros are the same as before: all the typical pros of working for a large company. In addition: great people, people are smart and work hard, great technology and engineering, good facilities. Overall, the company is well managed - which is hard to do in this kind of industry (small market size, high tech, low growth, lots of competition).

Cons: All the typical cons of working for a large company. Some points to make: company values talent, not people, and treats individuals as disposable. Benefits are sub-par for the Bay Area. Compensation tends to be on the low side. No effective standards of conduct for management - about 20% of middle management staff are unprofessional psychopaths and it's impossible to hold them accountable. Rank order performance evaluations (archaic way to manage a work force) incentivizes people to work hard but not take risks or make tough decisions. People are discouraged from moving around within the company, so careers can stagnate. And a company culture that I can only describe as "unnecessarily mean".

Pros: Good bonus and LTI (equivalent of stocks)

Cons: Long hours, stagnant work, lots of layoffs