First Solar reviews

Expect you have a laptop in one hand watching the floor, responding to non stop teams messages and email, running scripts, making reports, adjusting 20 different tools, while with the other hand wrenching on the tools and fixing them. Have 4 engineers throwing you every which direction to do their work for them while they sit in their office or in their meetings. (Some engineers are pretty cool and do a lot) Advancement is near impossible, have to prove you have engineering level knowledge to get a promotion which means somehow studying advanced device physics and theories while running and fixing tools. All while they expect you to cross train into other job titles to help out when someone calls off or if they deem it necessary. No balance in role and responsibilities and pay. They pay people off the streets higher than people who have been with them for years. I've seen them lowball several people that worked here as production techs for a few years and got 'promoted' to METs but make 4-5$ less per hour than fresh METs just hired in.

- repetitive work - management is unprofessional - favoritism - they make it very difficult to move up but if your persistent you'll get there eventually - HR does not help with any issues, they are very kind but you never get any follow ups