Vantaggi
Good place to start a career. There are many diverse and challenging problems to work on. Great engineers to work with and learn from.
Svantaggi
Initial training is relatively poor, approach is very sink-or-swim. They have worked hard to improve this over the years, and it has gotten better, but they need to focus more in this area. Very little upward mobility, unless you are part of the club. Management is out-of-touch and too focused on satisfying their bosses at the expense of their directs. DRAM is a commodity that goes through cycles. While upper management is obviously aware of this, they do little to protect the business from downcycles and overspend during upcycles. Layoffs often occur every 3-5 years as a result. Management pays a lot of lip service to innovation. However, they are only interested in innovation that is very specific to the product. Peripheral innovation is often ignored or disregarded. The culture focuses on a reactionary instead of proactive approach to engineering. Many future problems could be avoided by taking a proactive QC minded approach, but management is often not supportive. Forced poor performance scoring to meet a quota. A lot of good engineers have lost jobs as a result of playing number games. Vaccine mandate.