Micron Technology reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(7,860 total reviews)
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Sanjay Mehrotra

81% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Micron Technology has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 7,860 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Micron Technology employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 3, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Relocation package is fairly solid, if they are still offering it. Manassass is a fairly safe city to raise a family in. Opportunity for experience in 300mm fabrication.

Cons

Working your normal scheduled hours was not "enough", until they cut overtime at which point working more than your scheduled hours was excessive. Promotions are non-existent. I worked there for nearly four years with no promotion or even a raise. Market surveys for pay raises are a joke. Comparing the area around DC with the midwest is hardly a fair comparison for wages and cost of living adjustments. Management seems completely disconnected with the "working class" employees. They only stick their noses in when they feel output isn't strong enough. No recognition on the individual level when a job is well done. Management rarely steps foot on the clean room floor. How can you manage what you don't know? Benefits were stripped away one by one during the downturn, and are slow to return. High turnover rate among technicians who are disgruntled about the lack of pay raises and promotions causing many shifts to be under staffed, increasing the workload on already upset employees. Cafeteria is not subsidized. One meal can easily cost $8.00 or more if you don't bring your lunch, and unless you are on 1st shift they frown on you leaving site to get lunch.

4.0
Jan 18, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Micron offers great careers for people wanting to work for a fortune 500 company in a city where family and community still mean something. Micron cares about its employees and layoffs are something done as an absolute last resort instead of what other companies are doing. Micron is a place where I would recommend my kids working when they grow up and where I would be happy to retire if given the opportunity.

Cons

Micron is slow to adopt change. Working from home is discouraged and the management has poor leadership skills at a department level. For example, since a lot of the management has come up from production, many managers watch the clock for professionals on salary and they treat their people like production line employees. Many of the Managers have also come up from technical positions, so their understanding of business is limited and their leadership skills are mediocre to poor. Micron tends to think that technical expertise is more important than business and/or leadership expertise so there isn't balance in the team skill sets. Once these individuals are promoted to these roles, many of them have an attitude that they are too busy or already know what they need. Many never pursue additional training and classes. Micron still tends to have a manufacturing focused mindset. By this I mean "We will build what is most efficient for us and the customers can buy what we build".

2.0
Sep 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Really good workers who are very competent both technically and functionally. Good pay in the Treasure Valley with decent professional opportunities. Good ability to take vacation when needed.

Cons

There is a site access report that shows when employees badge in and badge out - very mentally consuming to know that reports like this and the web surfing report are used to manage employees. This is the easy way to manage - instead, how about managing by objectives or by deliverables and really understanding what employees are delivering in terms of value? Challenges with flex schedules or working from home - most management is not on board with this. The work life balance is often challenged; many salaried employees feel they have to work long hours (50-60 hours per week); too many conflicting priorities at times (overly demanding workload while not truly taking into account the amount of workers required to accomplish something; many efforts underway at any point in time, some get done while sacrificing quality leading to employee frustrations - this is hopefully changing)

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