Okay if you don't mind grinding hard for high pay, but poor work life balance. - Process and Equipment Engineer Micron Technology Employee Review

4.0
Jun 4, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Clear career path. Fairly good teamwork between departments. Good focus on efficiency and improvement projects. Open to new ideas, especially from new hires. Good place for a first job in the semicon industry. Very good compensation (for degree holders) but annual leave is 14days for new hires. Fairly sufficient training

Cons

Likes to keep very lean teams, meaning quite alot of OT depending on the crunch time and which department you're in. New hires get arrowed to take up "CCAs" like setting up booths for team building events which to me is a waste of time and energy, I would prefer time offs. Management always buys the minimum number of machines and then complains when you can't meet the occasional high throughput KPIs. Very age-ist: if you're in your 40s and not a manager, get ready to be laid off Rating system that affects salary is very degrading and demoralizing.

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5.0
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Pros

Learning a lot and easy to work with.

Cons

Not having the knowledge to contribute what I would like.

3.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The hours are excellent, as there are few other jobs that offer 3 on/4 off, 4 on/3 off where I can have such an excellent work/life balance. Almost everyone I have encountered has been very easy to learn from and work with. Micron offers many benefits that support having a family, including direct financial, TOP, insurance, and savings benefits. Get to work with humanity's most cutting-edge technology providing one of the most important products in human history. Fulfilling work.

Cons

The pay is acceptable, but you will be seriously pressed to find a place to live near the main site in Boise. Housing availability for families is severely limited while apartments, while more numerous, have become significantly more expensive to rent. Between that and the rise of the cost of living in the area, the base pay here is difficult to cover everything if you didn't show up with some monetary reserves. People are trying their best, but training very much needs attention getting better organized and structured. Especially working in an R&D environment with so many different dangerous materials and equipment. Even more seriously, there is some doubt that you can get proper support if you are actually injured in this environment. You may find yourself getting told whatever injury you suffered at work is a "pre-existing condition". This is not a hypothetical.

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