Polar Semiconductor reviews

Always trying to do more with less (a lot less). Pay is definitely average or a little below. With a lot of old equipment that isn't matched, there were a lot of processing issues and resulting scrap. Technology development runs at a snail's pace because the fab is always overloaded. Not clear to me that Operations really knows how to run a fab efficiently, resulting in a lot of WIP bubbles and "Chinese fire drills"

This company has been working on a shoe string budget for years, there is never any funding available to make the kinds of improvements that are really needed. The equipment in all areas is a hodge podge from various vendors and from all vintages. The biggest challenge is to keep it all running and to detect the next big quality issue early enough to prevent the need of throwing thousands of wafers in the rubbish bin. Management is so focused on "making the numbers" that quality comes secondarily and even though this lesson has been learned many times over the years, it still get repeated way too often.