KLA reviews

The company favors message going top-down. The management team is too "strong" to accept advices. It is very common that in a meeting there is no advices/complaints/objection from the bottom side, while the managers are proud of it. The overhead to do a task is very high, technically or in management. There are two reasons contributing to this, one is that the managers are very young, seldom know the technology details or the full story; another is that reward or credit is normally proportional to the importance or eye-catching of the task, not the challenges. The overhead might be created on purpose and accumulated years over years. That is why the company always wants to cut the costs but in vain.

Forced Time-off policy. This year, the workers are required to take 5-6 weeks off. They have to use their vacation (PTO), and when that has been used up, they have to take the time off without pay. Pay raises are scant. One time all the managers had at least a 10% reduction in salary. This was not made up for the next salary increase. Things are very political there, and people will back stab as needed to cover their own behind.