Vantaggi
Plenty of opportunity for over-time. Benefits are pretty good. There is a very diversified work force. You are almost certain to work with people from a variety of other companies.
Svantaggi
Where to start. The policies that Cree has were set in place to "protect" the employee. It's more like there are loads of policies set in place to give you absolutely no freedom. Cree seems to be about keeping their employees on a short leash. They give you an occurrence for any time you are late, call-out without 24 hour notice, etc. I called out one day because of inclement weather. I couldn't get out of my driveway due to snow and ice. A state of emergency was declared yet Cree not only stayed open, they stated that you should be at work within 6 hours of your scheduled start time or get an occurrence. I live an hour away! A engineer there who lives 10 minutes away took 2 hours to get in. In short, they are micro-managing as hell. If you have no life, no family, no hobbies, and have no desire to do anything other than work, Cree is the place for you. One of the Pros I listed was a opportunity for over-time. While this is true they often make it mandatory and upper management is completely oblivious as to what is going on on the floor. They usually start mandatory over-time too late and never end it when they should. There are people in all the time for over-time and there is literally NOTHING to do! It was like that for the last two weeks I have worked and I haven't heard any rumors of it stopping any time soon. Maybe I'm being a bit dramatic but Cree really seems like they try to control their employees. Unless you are really in need of a job, look else where.