TSMC reviews

Very bureaucratic and hierarchical company due to its Taiwanese work culture. Taiwanese employees have a deeply ingrained deference to their bosses, whereas the Americans aren't accustomed to that kind of corporate environment and expect higher standards of mutual respect and trust. The budget approval process for anything is ridiculously slow due to lower trust and high levels of bureaucracy between departments and levels of management - with upper management cracking down on lower management because *they* are getting cracked down upon by their headquarters management. So the lowest rung managers are often scapegoated and forced to come up with non-feasible budgets and plan workarounds that involve spending no/less money than what would be most efficient. Every bigger budget project has to be presented through PowerPoint to the fab directors/VPs, and it is common for these meetings to result in the disrespect and evisceration of the lower managers, particularly to Taiwanese lower managers. Americans generally seem less vulnerable to these attacks (again, partially due to language barrier).

Working hours are too long