Micron starting pay

Originally Posted by New here

Hi all, I happen to chance upon this forum/thread whole randomly googling "Micron". Just a brief intro of myself, I am in Micron Fab10 since 2013 upon graduation from NUS with a third class honours. The earlier posts on this thread about 3k starting pay with less than a year old bonus (excluding AWS) is true. I joined getting 3k. micron operating at lost every quarter back then and working in very stressful environment is also true.

But things changed after the new CEO Sanjay Mehrotra came onboard. This guy is super good! He brought in a whole team of executives, driving the correct business strategy to capture high value market sector, pushing new technology development while appointing the new CPO (chief people officer) April Arnzen to focus on improving the company's image, working culture, environment, benefits etc. So many things have improved over the years.

Today, Micron has taken over the technology lead from Samsung, introducing the industry's first 1-alpha DRAM and 176-layer NAND. I can assure you guys that you will be hearing more news about Micron extending the technology lead in the coming months.

Being a high-tech technology firm, Micron invests heavily in operation optimisation. We adopt AI and smart manufacturing to constantly minimise manual work, focusing on productivity. As a result, Micron managed to join the WEF Global Lighthouse Network in 2020. The use of technology helps to simply and eliminate many mundane task like data crunching via the use of very well-designed dashboard for very convenient data representation. It allows much easier problem diagnostics as well. This allows our work to be done is a much easier and effective way, which translates to much lower stress than before.

Micron Singapore managed to stay in the stop 10 Great Place To Work since the program's inception in 2019. We improved our ranking from 9 in 2019 to the current 6 in 2021. Yes, Micron is essentially a manufacturing company, producing high end memory chips, but can you imagine a manufacturing being in the top 10 GPTW list, edging out even those big names in the Tech service industries? We are ranked top amongst all semicon companies in Singapore.

Micron highly appreciate talents and view human capital as a valuable asset to the company. The REACH conversation program facilitates supervisory by providing systematic performance goal setting and devise development plans for team members to be successful. There is also the "Micron University", which is in essence the main e-learning platform that provides inhouse courses ranging from technical to soft skills available for team members to enroll for free!

Micron has a very forgiving culture. When mistakes happen, our investigations focus mainly on any system or process gaps that allows us to work in, to prevent repeats instead of finger pointing. we do not believe in "flip table, bang door, shou vulgarities" kind of culture. Everybody here is civilized. Micron is also a unionised company that strongly encourage team members to join union. Being in a managerial position, I have witness how difficult it is, to punish team members. The HR has various programs for supervisors to communicate with team member to guide them towards improvement.

Micron also has many internal programs called employee resource groups (ERG), something like a CCA that allows team members to join to for a community with certain interest. Some example of our ERGs are "Micron Women Leadership Network", "Young Micron Professionals".

In terms of work life balance, we are currently piloting a "Flexible work arrangement" that allows team member to have one day work from home per week. We will be studying the results of this pilot to further enhance in the subsequent phase.

Here comes the compensation, the executives have shared that with effect from 1 May, new fresh grad hires will be getting a flat rate of 5k. First class honours will be given additional SGD10k worth of stocks.
I have more to type, but I think that's enough. Feel free to Google what I wrote regarding the CEO, the WEF lighthouse, great place to work etc. These are all public information.

Lastly, semicon manufacturing is not dying in Singapore. In fact, we have been expanding non-stop since I joined Micron in 2013. If you ready the news, global foundries is building a new fab in SG, UMC has recently announced to build a second fab in SG. ASML just opened a new production plant in SG and has committed to expand further in SG. I expect to hear more of such semicon expansion news in SG in the coming months or even years. With the world entering a digital era that heavily relies on 5G, AI, electric vehicles, satellite application, cloud/data center etc, we are now just at the beginning of the digital revolution. Demand for semicon is assured of the next 5-10 years in a conservative sense.

This guy serve micron until kum gong liao

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This guy serve micron until kum gong liao

lol what this guy smoking sia i also want. btw the 5k fresh grad hire part is simply not true lmao.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

lol what this guy smoking sia i also want. btw the 5k fresh grad hire part is simply not true lmao.

Not right to simply use 1 sentence to dismiss the whole long text that I have written. Read carefully: 5k is starting 1st May, not now. This is an insider information that I am sharing. Please at least show some appreciation for my effort to share information. Just wait for the current batch of fresh grad to go onboard Micron after 1st May and they will know what I've said is all true.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This guy serve micron until kum gong liao

I am simply sharing what I know of Micron Singapore in case there are still anybody out there interested to know more. If there are trolls around, I won't be entertaining.

However, I can understand if there is any doubts or skeptism towards what I have wrote. That's why I also mentioned in my post for anyone in doubt to google. There are some public information available that can testify what I wrote. Of course, there are also some information in my post that are only known by employees who know what's going on inside.

We will see, if there is any other Micron employee here who wants to share anything.

Originally Posted by new here

Not right to simply use 1 sentence to dismiss the whole long text that I have written. Read carefully: 5k is starting 1st May, not now. This is an insider information that I am sharing. Please at least show some appreciation for my effort to share information. Just wait for the current batch of fresh grad to go onboard Micron after 1st May and they will know what I've said is all true.

mate, no need to take things personally. on an anon forum no less, i think youll forgive me if im not inclined to believe an anonymous rando here. lets say for the sake of argument u are right, and after 1st may all fresh grads can bumped to 5. i have first hand info now on micron offers at 4k. u mean to tell me come may, surprise everyone gets 1k/ month more congrats? wouldnt it make more sense to convey this to fresh grads so they will be inclined to stay instead of seeing 4k and accepting another offer???

[alex86]

Interesting, what will happen for more senior position after 1st May ? Will they get a pay bump too ?

Originally Posted by alex86

Interesting, what will happen for more senior position after 1st May ? Will they get a pay bump too ?

They will be going through this exercise called "compression", basically a salary adjust upwards as a result of the new in-hire pay. Meaning to say of new hire is getting 5k, the existing staff will be no less than 5k. Managers are not part of this compression exercise. But I suspect the management is working out another exercise for the managers.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

mate, no need to take things personally. on an anon forum no less, i think youll forgive me if im not inclined to believe an anonymous rando here. lets say for the sake of argument u are right, and after 1st may all fresh grads can bumped to 5. i have first hand info now on micron offers at 4k. u mean to tell me come may, surprise everyone gets 1k/ month more congrats? wouldnt it make more sense to convey this to fresh grads so they will be inclined to stay instead of seeing 4k and accepting another offer???

No problem bro/sis. I am not offended. Pardon me if I sounded harsh in my previous post. You are right that the CURRENT fresh grad pay is 3.8k-4 2k. This is already an upward revision in effect since beginning of this year. However, the company recognizes the extremely tight labour/talent market for this industry due to the boom. 4k is no longer attractive enough. Those who are hired before 1st may will see the same adjustment to their salary. At current practice of new hire interview, we are not told if we can convey this news to the potential new hires, but I believe rumours will start to spread. Anyway, 1st may is just one month away.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

mate, no need to take things personally. on an anon forum no less, i think youll forgive me if im not inclined to believe an anonymous rando here. lets say for the sake of argument u are right, and after 1st may all fresh grads can bumped to 5. i have first hand info now on micron offers at 4k. u mean to tell me come may, surprise everyone gets 1k/ month more congrats? wouldnt it make more sense to convey this to fresh grads so they will be inclined to stay instead of seeing 4k and accepting another offer???

Agreed, then wouldn't fresh grads from GF, siltronic, mediatek and other big semicon names jump over to micron then? Might as well tell those that join Singtel MAP come Micron better also

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Agreed, then wouldn't fresh grads from GF, siltronic, mediatek and other big semicon names jump over to micron then? Might as well tell those that join Singtel MAP come Micron better also

That's the whole point: competition for talent.
If you refer to my first long post, I mentioned the semicon expansion as well as the very bright prospect in the industry. When you have the whole industry expanding en mass, what's going to happen is the extreme competition for talent. This is also what we see in the digital/IT sector.