Silfex reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(107 total reviews)

Tim Archer

72% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Silfex has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 107 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silfex 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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107 reviews
2.0
Jul 14, 2016

Hourly Employee

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay, benefits, most people. Employee stock program has been wonderful. Climate controlled facility.

Cons

Work life balance is horrible. Upper Management did nothing to prepare for the work load over a year ago. Now they are scrambling to make it work. They have came up with a plan in the last recent 6 months to implement the 12 hr work day and the 7 day work week. That should solve all problems. We are already working 7 days a week and getting nowhere fast. Upper Management says hourly folk will love it. We cannot sustain the levels of production because they are not aloud to spend money on equipment we need and most of all the talent level we need. Promised us 10 years ago nothing would change in the way company was operated. Everything has changed we are not valued employees anymore, we are machines (pawns as you will) for the upper echelon to get their big bonus checks and stock options. Hourly employees barely get a raise anymore.

2.0
Jan 6, 2016

Going downhill fast

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really good benefits. Good Healthcare at a reasonable cost. Dental and Vision available for a little more. Pay is good. I've been told it used to be a lot better. Work areas are clean. Some nice people work here.

Cons

Hiring more and more temporary workers Everything is top priority and an emergency Forgot that workers are humans and not just resources A big raise is 3%, most are 2% or less Lack of focus from the leadership Given up on LEAN principles and lost all of the hard work done to get there.

3.0
Nov 14, 2017

Silfex, a Division of Lam Research(Formerly a good place to work)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Slightly above average pay and benefits. Some oppourtunity for advancement(if you sell your soul) -They do support training and will almost always approve requested training.

Cons

-12 HOUR SHIFTS -12 HOUR SHIFTS -12 HOUR SHIFTS 12 hour shifts make it incredibly difficult to have a life outside of work, it's impossible to find childcare 13 plus hours a day, it'snearly impossible to take advantage of benefits like tuition reimbursement when you work 24/7 12 hour rotations. -We went from an excellent retirement/pension plan to a run of the mill 401k plan after Lam bought us out. -HR Department is laughable and they can't keep good people IMHO due to the managerThe good ones we do hire quickly see who their boss is and they are gone with the wind). -There have been so many broken promises to the hourly employees that the atmosphere has become on of constant mistrust of managment's motives at every turn.

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