I was a Control Center Technician for the Back End Nights shift for 13 months. I started there when the building was concrete and plywood, didn't have running water, and before there was even a night shift - so know that this review comes with knowledge and experience of what goes on there. I was one of the 3 first people on night shift (currently have ~50 I believe) and throughout my time there I had worked every shift there was - FE and BE nights, and all day shifts. I met all the operations bosses, worked under most of them, and was verbally and physically harassed by 2 of them. My HR reports were constantly postponed/ignored/lost and weren't taken seriously, probably because I'm a male, and what male can be physically harassed by a woman, amiright?. I wasn't the only one harassed at this job as multiple people had confided in me what their managers have said to them. Having their jobs threatened if they "don't do what I tell you", being told "you'll do what I say because I write your reviews", or even having their cell phone ripped from their hand and threatened with insubordination (that one was me). The false visage this company purports is hilarious to the people that actually work there. A common joke is that they wouldn't have any investors if anyone of them actually saw how the place is ran. Management swings from a 70 year old geriatric man who can't make it to work 50% of the time, literally can't read, and falls asleep at his desk (this one is supposed to be the "best of the best" btw), to a girl that has had literally 0 management experience before this company. Think for a second - if you were going to open up a new branch of your company in an industry as competitive and stringent as the semi-conductor one, wouldn't you want your leaders to be top notch? This place doesn't think so. On my shift, the workers ran it and our manager was a non-factor - as most operations managers at Wolfspeed are. To say this company is dropping the ball would be the understatement of the year. The head start they have with their Silicon Carbide tech is crazy and they still can't pull it off. Senior management wouldn't listen to the fact that we didn't have the right people to run a night shift yet kept asking why things weren't working on night shift. If we don't have people to fix/preform upkeep on the tools, how are we going to run the tools? This kind of logic goes all the way up to the general managers, throwing around KPIs like their are any to record with no tools running. This backwards logic and refusal to see something right in front of them was absolutely the most infuriating thing about working for them, as could probably be agreed upon by most of my co-workers. Another thing contributing to this company being literally the worst I've ever worked at - almost everyone I know (including me) has had some kind of issue with their paycheck. Not getting paid the correct amount of hours, not having their night differential being added, wrong time off being used (or not being used at all when you tell your manager to his face to use it), not getting reimbursed for expenses, you name it and it's happened. On the construction side of things, the building isn't even fully constructed yet. It's over a year behind schedule, it's spent 2 billion more dollars then was estimated, and it still hasn't produced anything that could be sellable at market. I have no idea how they got Jaguar to sign with them, I'd have to assume they were fed enough BS or straight up lied to (this is all common knowledge from their website/public interviews, not confidential company information btw). The place has 30+ water leaks every time it rains, akin to your great grandfathers old shed out back. Windows have cracks in them, doors are broken, the air pressure switches so often and is so uncontrolled that this is LITERALLY howling and whistling throughout the building because of it. I know it sounds like I'm making things up, but I swear on the future of Electric Vehicles I'm not. This place failed to adhere to NYS handicap access ramp laws for their walkways, TWICE. How do you even do that? Imagine having to build the walkways out front of your building three times, just ridiculous. Incompetence is this company's culture, and failure is their mindset. They shoot for mediocrity and can't even attain that. I know everyone's heard of "too big to fail" but I think we're about to see for the first time that old saying not ring true. Avoid this place, or if you want to join the semi-conductor industry, apply here, get a job even if your only experience is working at a gas station, and then move to Micron when then open a place up in a few years.
