New Directions for Probe Engineering - Probe Engineer Micron Technology Employee Review

4.0
Sep 4, 2017
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Pros

Micron has been growing for a number of years, and it endured some growing pains. After it acquired some smaller memory companies (and one sizable one), the product portfolio became so big that probe and test engineering was severely strained by the workload. While that's still true, the teams are adapting to the challenge with a stronger focus on cross-team collaboration and using newer and better tools to become more efficient. There is a lot of opportunity to impact the success of the new game-changing products that are in the works, and the work extends far beyond simply writing code to test chips: there's a lot of understanding the physics and materials of the chips, the ways they fail, and the hardware they're tested on. It is easy to keep busy in interesting ways.

Cons

Change is hard, and some engineers are set in their ways with how they get things done, which does slow progress. There are also a few very strong personalities that unfortunately are allowed to dominate the environment, with some becoming overly negative or even hostile towards the work other engineers have accomplished.

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3.0
Jul 20, 2026
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Pros

The hours are excellent, as there are few other jobs that offer 3 on/4 off, 4 on/3 off where I can have such an excellent work/life balance. Almost everyone I have encountered has been very easy to learn from and work with. Micron offers many benefits that support having a family, including direct financial, TOP, insurance, and savings benefits. Get to work with humanity's most cutting-edge technology providing one of the most important products in human history. Fulfilling work.

Cons

The pay is acceptable, but you will be seriously pressed to find a place to live near the main site in Boise. Housing availability for families is severely limited while apartments, while more numerous, have become significantly more expensive to rent. Between that and the rise of the cost of living in the area, the base pay here is difficult to cover everything if you didn't show up with some monetary reserves. People are trying their best, but training very much needs attention getting better organized and structured. Especially working in an R&D environment with so many different dangerous materials and equipment. Even more seriously, there is some doubt that you can get proper support if you are actually injured in this environment. You may find yourself getting told whatever injury you suffered at work is a "pre-existing condition". This is not a hypothetical.

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