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Anonymous

Applications Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at KLA for 2 years
July 14, 2015
Milpitas, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Semi-structured training program for new hires
  • Catered meals
  • Complimentary Starbucks coffee
  • Reimburses cell phone minutes (but not data plan)
  • New hires have a personal meeting with the CEO
  • I joined because of my specific manager. Certain people are a pleasure to work with and are beneficial to your personal growth.
Cons
  • High turnover rate
  • Poor quality work life balance, and you often have to depend on your fellow colleagues' discipline/efficiency as well as book limited laboratory time, but often can't plan too far in advance due to multiple last minute changes in schedule outside of your control
  • Approx 50% travel with many last-minute changes in travel dates make it hard to schedule your own personal life
  • Verbally abusive colleagues, especially many stingy technical leads and managers with poor management skills that threaten the employees on Visas about their job security
  • The bump in title to technical lead might not come with a salary bump depending on your negotiating skills

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