Vantaggi
work life balance understood as a priority by team leaders robust technical and business model (big technical moat, quasi monopoly) good benefits, including big bonus you can have real dialog about issues, people are not afraid to say "I don't know" or even "I hever heard of that". Nice local attractions: beach in westport, norwalk aquarium, bridgeport zoo
Svantaggi
Ct cost of living is very high. Check out apartment rents in Wilton, and property taxes on Wilton houses. There are a lot of wall street fat cats in the area, driving up prices. Also, the town councils do not want a resident middle class, let alone a working class population. Top places for asml employees who care about schools would be Ridgefield, Fairfield, and Westport (if you can afford it) . Very little circuit design. Mostly requirements engineering. If you want to do requirements engineering as a career, this is a good place. (this is mainly true of Edev, not Sdev or Mdev). Of the hundreds of Edev employees, only a few do actual circuit design. They will be called designers, not architects. If you care about doing circuits, discuss this in the interview and before you accept. My interview was mostly "behavioral" and soft skills: presentation skills and conflict resolution. Very few technical questions. Because I had a strong academic and technical background there were few technical questions. You might fare differently. You have a lot of meetings and do a lot of document reviews. There is little time for concentrated thought and tough problem solving. It is more negotiating, finding information, reading comprehension and logical reasoning. You will not need to know much circuit theory. If you get hired as FPGA engineer, you will do that. It is a big need at the company.