Pay is way under industry average. Located in an area with one of the highest costs of living in the US. Experience and skill will only get you very small pay raises. New hires in the same job position with no experience will be making more than you (non-union positions). Co-workers who started at the same time, but left for other companies, get paid almost double what they Pay here. There's a constant push by upper management to reduce year-over-year costs and increase moves on tools that only get older and older. Then management blames you for not keeping costs low. These machines are on average 24+ years old and getting older. There are too many bottleneck machines which cause the whole fab production line to seize up if a single tool goes down. They don't make many replacement parts anymore, so the machines are being quite literally held together with zip-ties and epoxy putty. This location is on a lease with plans to eventually be demolished and replaced with condos, so there is no future career path at this location. Anyone who doesn't already have a paid-off house and family eventually leaves for greener pastures... The building itself is literally falling apart and everyone notices. The techs rarely get new tools to work on machines so when someone leaves the company their tool box is thrown into a den of technician hyenas. Most people end up buying their own tools. Eat in the cafeteria at your own risk, the cockroach packs that roam the grounds don't exist according to HR.
