Pros
Great knowledge database. Good technical place for learning as they have very good FA technical staff and equipment. Not to say with the up and coming IMFS, Tech Semicon, Numonyx fab, the wafer process support for debugging is even more comprehensive. Great place to learn the semiconductor process(wafer process,assembly package,FA techniques, memory testing) except IC design, application, technical marketing skills. Everybody here is enthusiastic about their work (not all out of passion though, just the culture) Internal symposium provide a platform for everybody to showcase their work. once integrated, it does feel a bit family, they have enthusiaistic young engineers to organise team building events. Great location, just near metro, near the city, convenient.
Cons
Most engineers here are very young. Got a feeling they work their young engineers socks off especially in device group PE til these green horns woke up some yrs down the road and leave and then a new batch comes. If you are not a scholar here, promotion is slow. If you are scholar, u r on high way to being manager. Due to nature and culture of work here, everybody is more or less doing the same thing, the competition is immense due to limited opportunities to climb. every engineer is gunning for a single manageria post in his department so you imagine the stress. only 2 ladder you can climb for technical - senior eng, principal engineer. Then stay there til u become a section manager. For compensation and benefits their slogan says it all "To be the lowest cost memory solution provider...." what do you expect? Office environment is sweat shop type factory, rows after rows of cubicles, make u feel you nothing more than a cell on memory array :D Haphazard,top down management, typical singapore style management regardless of it being a big arm of MNC. u get a feeling that they will stinge on u all the way. Oh yes, beware of 1st few months of 'initation', hostility, aggression will be shown towards you by senior staff at the slightest ignorance or delay you have. I got told off right infront of everybody by senior staff within my 1st week of work. So its kinda like a 'taming' period for new hires especially those mid career ones. the fresh grads, it's easy meat for them. for fresh grads, be prepared to organise many team building events on top of your work load. anyway, work life balance is not something the management here chant about. even though many freshies feel quite good, they ain't see the world yet.
