Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was working in Micron 1 year back.. Culture is varying among their sites..
- MSA: quite slacking.. not much career prospects, job scope (technical wide) quite easy.
- TECH (now Fab 7): pay is above avg in industry, but it is "under-staffed" strategy i.e you need to work longer hrs (expected).. and your career promotion is baed on the no. of hrs u spent in office..
- IMFS (Fab 10): this is newly opened fab, culture is the best among Micron's Spore site as its leadership team is driven by IMFT's (@Utah)..Career prospect is better than in TECH > better than MSA: because of the manufacturing capacity ~ they will need more people.
- a newly acquired fabs producing PCM (phase-changed memory) forgot its name..

* TECH produce DRAM, IMFS: NAND, while MSA: test assembly.. as you know, DRAM is declining, so 5-10 years down the road there are not much career prospect in DRAM..
* however, Micron is financially better than other DRAM producers in the world because: they got good technology, good cash reserved, and other competiors: Hynix & Elpida is about to burst. So, it's your call..

At the end of day, if you are a guy with great passion & ambitition, joining semiconductor will not give you good satisfaction.. Many ex-Micron employees resigned and said: "never go back there again".. Recently a lot of engineers & low-level managers guys from TECH resigned to join Phillip (even their pay in the later is lower..). It's the working culture citied as the top reason for their resign.

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