TSMC reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(2,153 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

TSMC has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,153 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TSMC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jan 9, 2024

Compact and chaotic work.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You never know that you can actually squeeze out more time to accomplish things that initially seemed impossible.

Cons

The work is tight and chaotic, with orders often changing abruptly, and there is no standardized approach to personnel promotions.

3.0
Sep 5, 2022

Bad work culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Money and the most updated experience relative to the industry

Cons

Military style work culture, lots of KPIs for people, which means that every individual is treated and expected to work as a tool, that's just the culture here, it's in the directors heads, no one can talk to them and everyone fears them. CEO said in a motivational speech: do you know what does an exempt emoyee mean? It means that you're exempt from labor laws, that's his take on it. When he was asked how do we acheive work/life balance? His answer was work hard, play hard, how does he expect his employees to play hard when work hard means working from 8am and staying until 8-10pm everyday, sometimes 6 days a week if you have a weekend shift? This leaves 0 time for life. Now the problem is that this is the CEO take on things, and it resonates through the hierarchy of management until it reaches the employees, so imagine how the work culture is like. People get threatened with their bonuses for literally everything, it's their way of retaliation. You do whatever you're told to the way THEY expect you to do it, never object anything or say a word, or you get a huge pay cuts.

2.0
Dec 29, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Seems stable, very low-maintenance, working with latest nodes, good place to learn and then move on, etc.

Cons

No career opportunities, the Ottawa office has no vision and thinks too cheap, TSMC does not know how to trust or operate remote offices, the ottawa office is very underwhelming when representing the TSMC brand in Canada.

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