Reasons You Should Never Work in Micron - Recensione dipendente - Manufacturing Engineer presso Micron Technology

Cons. Well, oh I sure have stories for you. Micron's Core Values consist of People, Innovation, Tenacity, Collaboration and Customer Focus. People, what does that mean to you? You would think it means they take care of their people right? Wrong. Micron is entirely about numbers. They try their best to show in numbers to the world/media that people of all race, ethnicity, gender are welcomed for their talents. But it ends there. The moment you enter the doors of the company, you're treated like trash. Innovation? Innovation is constantly forced from each employee each shift of each day, You would think this means that the company is part of Industry 4.0 right? Wrong. It's barely part of the third Industrial revolution. Everything is backwards. Data is keyed in manually and despite the mass amounts of informations. Most machines aren't autonomous and require manpower, robotics aren't used and the current software they're using which is extremely backdated and inconvenient to use, was made in the early 2000's/late 1990's. You know what's the most ridiculous part? You're expected to collate all those for each meeting during each shift, yeah sometimes there's a tableu someone created or you're asked to create it but most of the time it is not working. Tenacity haha. Well they do expect tenacity alright, the most extreme version of it from you. They expect you to sacrifice you time, your pay, your mental health for this tenacity of theirs. You're expected to work 24/7, there's no such thing as a break, you're not paid OT, there's no compensation to take time off instead either. Even if its 3am, you're expected to reply. Why? because its a 24/7 plant. Collaboration. Yup its when your superiors steal your work and credits, how fun. And lastly, Customer Focus. Oh believe this alright, Micron is extremely customer focused at the risk of their employees. They would sacrifice you to please their customers. Doesn't matter if you worked 5 weekends straight of 15 hours each day without additional pay or compensation, customer always comes first. Now that we're done with that, let me go into more details. I was laid off and was from Micron Singapore's Backend in the Manufacturing Department of the Assembly side. I signed a contract stating my roles, position, pay, OT pay, allowance, etc. I was to work in two week cycles of 3 days in the first week and 4 days in the second week while alternating day shift and night each cycle. I was to be a Manufacturing Shift Engineer with specified roles. However, despite this being what I had signed a contract for, it was absolutely false. They initially told me its just the first 2 weeks I would work the normal 5-day day shift to get used to things as I would have trainings and would be following around fellow engineers/senior engineers/managers to understand the plant's processes. 2 weeks had passed and no changes, my job scope completely changed, I was changed to a different position under "manufacturing engineer" which is just an excuse for them to throw you wherever they want. My initial supervisor who was a manager was also changed to someone else. And the worst part? They had changed me to working 5 days a week of regular day shift without my knowledge whilst falsely promising me I would be changing to my original shift soon which also meant that I would be getting no allowance since I was not in shift work. Another major red flag? The day I walked into the company, EVERYONE knew my pay. The people who interviewed me spread around to everyone in the manufacturing department whom I would be working with at that point, my pay. I had questioned the supervisors on my first day, only for them to brush it off and say its because the pay was slightly higher than it was previously without thinking about the implications of such a thing and how that would negatively affect a new employee. I received so much negativity, jealousy and refusal to guide me (despite being assigned to me) because of this. I was completely new to manufacturing in a semicon industry and was assigned to 9 different engineers who were supposed to show me their processes they handle but only 1 engineer actually did it, yet it was reported as they did what was assigned to them. I sourced for people myself, trainers, technicians, workers of each process to be able to learn. There was no sort of proper passdown or aid at all. They had 0 preparedness in terms of hiring a new employee. They had placed me in IPPC, which is basically planning and control of the inline production. The lead engineer tuned manager of Assembly IPPC was only interested in forcing the department to think that they can't do anything without him. To continue doing so, he constantly gave the impression to higher ups that my fellow engineer and I, and my technicians were doing a bad job, spreading false rumours, taking our credits, especially for me since I was new, he would constantly belittle me saying I've got no improvements, I'm doing a bad job, I shouldn't have been hired only for him to take my credit. He was dictatorial. He even gave higher ups excuses just to get a secluded room outside the open plan office where everybody worked just to show authority and close the door, yell and scream at us as his punching bag for when if we did something better than him or didn't do it exactly the way he would do it. Despite having numerous HR cases against him by his former team members, he was still promoted to manager for work he did years ago and never worked much again since. He was extremely manipulative, disrespectful, arrogant, spiteful and a liar. He would guilt me into working 24/7, into working weekends and working for free. 1 month plus into working in Micron, they said they aren't gonna pay OT anymore and that they "encouraged" everyone to leave on time. But no we couldn't leave, we had to do the alot of work and its not like we can leave without completing it since everything is shiftly. I did not have many public holidays to myself and so many weekends, I had to work. I was not compensated in any way and all the numerous benefits I was supposed to have was taken away because they claim they don't have the money. However as I worked in planning and control and at some point we were not pre producing anything anymore, I could see that we were still producing the same amount of orders each week but without any of the benefits going to the employees. Essentially people were working more for free. Now why should I work all those extra hours for free? Your supervisors force you to, they manipulate and guilt trip you into doing that. I was constantly threatened, to be placed into probation which would negatively affect my performance review which essentially affects IPP. The manufacturing department loved forging numbers. Given instructions by the test senior manager of the manufacturing department and director of the manufacturing department in Backend. The Ceo wanted everyone to have work life balance and had an initiative where meeting hours are cut down to only the necessary ones so we could be more focused on getting work and leaving on time. The meeting time and schedules of each employee were tracked and these department heads demanded everyone deleted any online meeting in calendars( we had a practice of inserting all online and in person meetings), just so they could meet the targets but we were still having 4-5 hours meetings each day behind management. Personally, on a bad day, I would have 7 hours of "essential" meeting, for comparison a day shift work day is 9 hours including lunch. This gave me no time to tend to my work and moreover I would have to come earlier just to prep slides for each meeting. Initially they had food allowance each day but they took that off saying they couldn't afford it too. Most contract workers from malaysia and china would rely on OT and food vouchers in order to be able to afford rent and food in Singapore but could not do anything when the company stopped it. Lastly, I was laid off by Micron. Out of the batch of employees I was hired with, I'm pretty sure I did most work, one of the most important work, high quality work and long long hours of work. Yet I was all of a sudden told to pack up and leave with so much of my extra hours uncompensated for. What I lacked? Personal connection. One thing to know about Micron is that many family and spouses and relatives, friends worked there together and with each other. Even if they didn't do any work, they were still chosen to stay. With these people who have personal connections in the same pay grade, be prepared to be doing a ton more work than them and have your credits given to them. In summary, Micron is filled with deception, degradation, dictatorship, biasness, bad management, no work life balance, bad work environment, no support and care to employees and no fulfilment of promised benefits. Don't pin your hopes on colleagues either as due to the inadequate higher management, senior test ippc manager, ippc assembly manager and director of the manufacturing department, colleagues constantly berate each other and throw each other under the bus during meetings just to save their own skin instead of working together to solve potential problems and work on improvements for the production line.