Vantaggi
I've been at Micron for over 17 years. I've worked at several other companies prior to Micron. Every company has there good and bad, and, mostly I think Micron is good. Micron is a very diverse company, family oriented, with very decent benefits.
Svantaggi
The new CEO, Sanjay Mehrotra, has done some good, but, unfortunately the new system of forced bell curve ranking has changed my views of Micron. The last couple of years Micron has done very well and this year the bonus was probably the best I've ever seen. Yet, the recent layoffs using the forced bell curve ranking system have overshadowed the happiness that one should feel with Micron's success. I've seen and heard of terrible stories of good people getting low scores. Some of the scores were based on lies to help justify the low scores to remove individuals. Some stories of managers leaving Micron because they were being forced to give a low score when the individual didn't deserve it. Micron has had layoffs before and usually there is good justification for it. This last layoff, I have yet to understand the justification for it. Financially, this is the best that Micron has ever done. Sure, there are poor performers, they should be handled individually and appropriately. Micron use of the forced bell curve ranking really doesn't make sense. It uses fear to increase performance, colleagues are now competing in the hope of keeping a high score and the collaboration goes down. You job is in question every year. If you do a google search for "bell curve forced ranking", you will find several articles stating that this method is outdated and doesn't increase performance and should not be used. It is for this reason I have hard time referring and recommending Micron to others. I really hope Micron re-evaluates this method.