Pros
Very family friendly company! Great midlevel engineering management; knowledgeable, flexible, insightful, patient & connected; excellent communication skills & professionalism Peers actually care personally for the well-being & success of their peers as well as thrmselves; great team of engineers with decades of experience & knowledge Benefits are mostly good except for delays in HSA deposits & occasional misentered benefits data. But I would call our flexibility in schedules World Class - especially for working parents. HSA is nice as are alternative compensation & flexible holidays. Great place to initiate improvement projects of your own design. There have been numerous ideas I've had to improve cycle time, quality & yield & most were met with approval. These activities help an employee feel empowered & valued. Insanely extravagent Christmas party & company picnic Lots of development in progress to grow the business which has a great outlook. Folks are working fervently to increase capacity, improve yield/quality where it really matters.
Cons
Small 4" fab, but I like it; it allows for lots of opportunities to make improvements; some equip very outdated & a handful of single-source tools provide challenges. But they've done great with what they've got. In-house WIP software is lacking & does not have many elements needed to provide consistent/industry standard quality, WIP lookahead by lot, recipe mgmt, etc. This makes it hard to expedite improvements, reduce cycle time, troubleshoot issues & reduce scrap. Fab is in NC where it can be harder to attract experienced staff despite RTP proximity; still it is a nice campus with local wildlife wandering the factory scene. External office structure leaves a lot to be desired despite savings considering the $ put into new upstairs offices. Hopefully this will resolve itself in the years ahead. Lots of operator turnover & some engineering too; what can we do to reatain talent?