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Big problems in low-level management

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at KLA for less than 1 year
November 20, 2008
Milpitas, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros

The job offers a decent salary and good people at the non-immediate management level.

Cons

Low-level management is has many over-inflated, underacheiving egos who talk big and do little.

Senior management and executives are smart and talented but there is much pettiness and just plain stupidity among the low-level managers.

There is a blue-collar-risen-through-the-ranks-but-undereducated-chip-on-on-the-shoulder attitude among the management of the a particular division.

Advice to Management

Clean house at the low-level management level. Interview the individual contributors, who for the most part are very hardworking and conscientious. You'll quickly realize the "cover my ass is priority #1" credo of low-level management is ruining the company.

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