KLA reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,984 total reviews)
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Rick Wallace

90% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

KLA has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,984 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The KLA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Jul 4, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good stock program, decent vacation program, good health benefits, fun quater end parties full of free drinks and a lots of food

Cons

political environment, early work hours, mediocre carer path, less than average pay compensation, colleagues less than stellar, big corporate culture

4.0
May 16, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learn useful and efficient ways to manage a differentiated technology business. KLA-Tencor has strong and proven marketing practices so that the products are industry leading. Definitely a good school for techies to understand that customers and marketing matter as much if not more than the beauty or coolness of the technology at work. Hard place to work at for the faint of heart, the culture is pretty much "what you have done for me is great, no what can you do next"... One is never done proving himself which is in the end a rather good thing to sustain or develop one's drive to improve.

Cons

Projects tend to change very fast as the company is extremely reactive to market conditions. If the market opportunity is not clearly defined, or changes during development, then the whole project is canned which can sometimes be frustrating for the development and engineering crew. But most employees would agree that it's better if prevents us to go into a dead end or a commoditized market. Another downside is that the company's benefits are rapidly shrinking in this increasingly competitive environment and one would worry about retention. For most employees, the company seems to not care too much about retention, which sometimes lead to expensive loses of talent or even competition from ex-employees starting their own businesses or joining competitors.

4.0
Sep 25, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Technical advancement. Probably the best technology company in inspection field. You will be able to work with bunch of extremely smart people and learn a lot from them. Plenty of professional skill development opportunity. Overall challenging tasks. On the top of list for best company for training programs.

Cons

Typical big company culture. You have to know how to bragging to be promoted. Promotion opportunity for minority is limited. Bussiness is going downhill, as the entire industry is going down. You will never know whether the semi industry would ever come back again, as the design rule is approaching its limit.

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