Has made great strides - Manager Micron Technology Employee Review

5.0
Dec 17, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The company has improved markedly over the past 10 years. While there is still cost-cutting during downturns, there is less kneejerk cost cutting. The company is now leading the industry instead of being the perpetual laggard and has a healthy profit margin and cash flow. Sanjay and his team has done a good job with this transformation. There is more focus on work-life balance and on employee satisfaction and feedback as well which is positive and real pressure is being applied on departments that are lagging in either. Some departments suffer from a dog-eat-dog culture of toxic politics and constant scheming, kingdom-building and maneuvering rather than collaboration. Other departments truly work as a team, everyone pulling in the same direction. The good news is that, being a large company, there is generally an opportunity to move to a different/better department if your current one is not a good fit.

Cons

Your experience will still, to a very large degree, depend on your managers and your VP. My experience with different departments has been day and night, so make sure to ask employees in the department you're planning on joining for their honest feedback. While there is much more focus on work-life balance and employee satisfaction, there are still departments that are largely either unable, or unwilling, to improve either. Some departments are very spread out geographically, which drives a lot of meetings at night for US employees when having to collaborate with Asia, and often you will also have meetings early in the morning - bookending a very long workday. There is often some flexibility to take some time off during the day, but that will largely depend on your local management - again, your experience will be entirely dependent on your immediate managers and the VP and how they decide to run things. Same goes for the work culture, as mentioned, some departments have a very toxic culture of political scheming, other truly collaborate and pull-together - again your experience will be very different depending on where you are.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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