Micron Technology reviews

All words, when it really comes to implementation the Management fails hard. Find excuses to skip bonuses or promotions by C-suite. Severence package was bad compared to peers. Management decision led to merging our team with other team(which was for most part homogeneous, seemed like the sr dir hired his own people) led to the distruction of our diverse/open culture team(almost all of the previous team members noticed this and most left/transfered to other teams, in hindsight that was a good decision ).

Despite their superficial efforts, Management has never been able to make people feel valued. Sure, they love to say "people are our most valuable resource" but don't demonstrate it. Everyone working at Micron knows that the factories, processing machines, and raw materials cost billions and are really the most valuable assets. To make things worse, Micron has adopted a forced-ranking performance management system that forces managers to use the full distribution of ratings (1 through 5) during yearly performance reviews. This is like the old GE system of terminating 10% of the workforce every year to create turnover. There are many experienced and talented employees at Micron and some groups are mostly comprised of these types. This forces managers of those groups to artificially rate people high and low. This leads to employees distrusting the process and Management and reduces collaboration due to internal team competition. Please note that Micron Top Management would claim that what I'm saying about the forced-ranking is not true, but I've talked with a number of mid-level managers, off the record, and they've confirmed it.