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| 23-03-2013 05:22 PM | ||
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The problem with being an engineer in semicon industry is in order to progress career you have to keep moving every few years. Plants are open and shut down all the time and you will have to follow the trend. Singapore to Malaysia/Thailand to China coastal cities and now the trend is to move to inland tier 3 cities. It doesnt help these plants are usually found in god forsaken place and not attractive to work there at all. |
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| 23-03-2013 05:48 AM | ||
| Unregistered | Is that the plant in woodlands which was the previous TECH semiconductor? As a process engineer, you are likely to jump around the few wafer fab in sg. Job wise there is really little transferable skill sets. Engineering plus manufacturing is going to be a challenge in sg to sustain for the long haul. | |
| 23-03-2013 01:03 AM | ||
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| 23-03-2013 12:54 AM | ||
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People always go around saying things like the wafer industry is a sunset industry but I call ********. How can that be true? You mean all the latest phones, laptops, game consoles and the likes have gone extinct? If anything, sales of these products are going up every year. However, I have this theory that it this industry is vulnerable to shifting out of Sg. The wafer industry is highly competitive has very low profit margin. They have to keep up with the changes in microfabrication process which requires very expensive investments. I think the reason why they set up shop in sg is because of the stability and we had an educated labour pool to fill up those technician posts cheaply(relatively). And so they stayed on to recover the costs of their investments. But our neighboring countries are catching up, they will soon be able to offer an even cheaper pool of labour to fill these technician positions. My guess that in due time this industry will completely shift out of sg, even faster should an extreme recession occur. |
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| 22-03-2013 08:41 PM | ||
| jobhunter1234 | Hoping more ppl / current employees could provide more info on micron. Thanks. | |
| 23-08-2012 01:02 PM | ||
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assume the starting is $3000 then 5 years down the road, what should be the basic salary? |
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| 23-08-2012 10:42 AM | ||
| poor and stupid | Please go for micron, and not GF. Why? ask the pay hahahahaha | |
| 23-08-2012 01:37 AM | ||
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fresh grads are hired to run the production line (i.e. routine work, trouble shooting) Projects, especially the high visibility ones.....u won't even get close. Haha. Quote:
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| 22-08-2012 06:34 PM | ||
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interesting read here.. seems like the above only applies to ops/engineering side..what about those corporate side. Are the starting salaries the same, or at least somewhere near? Btw FOUR rounds of interviews really demanding |
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| 20-06-2012 07:05 PM | ||
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