Micron Technology reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(7,850 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 7,850 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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4.0
Jan 23, 2018
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Pros

The first thing you will notice is the time off, they offer European levels of time off, and you'll never use it all (probably, most people had surplus, they started forcing people to use it). The starting pay is alright, good for Boise. Regular stock options, and stock offerings. The health center is really sweet! Culture there is more conservative overall, that can be a pro or a con depending on how you lean. Work life balance is ok, depends on the department a lot, but I didn't really have an issue with this. They allowed me to work from home during ice storms or when sick. They do encourage learning and growth within your existing role, taking college classes always gets approved. I didn't leave Micron because Micron, I left because I wanted to live someplace else, If you're an engineer and want to live in Boise, Micron is your best bet, and it's not a bad bet either. Some of the best engineers I've ever worked with were at Micron.

Cons

Well, it's conservative, for me that was a tad bit of a con, yes, it's a good ol' boys club, I can deal but come on, it's the 21st century. They promote and give raises very very slowly, so your pay gets less competitive over time unless you complain loud and outperform everyone else. They also don't support career changes, want to change tracks? Good luck, they like to keep you where you're at. Sometimes getting new ideas implemented requires going through a lot of office politics, especially if some senior person is pushing their idea and wants to get another pip on their collar. The politics can get nasty, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. They also seem to hire senior leaders based on politics and not qualifications, one director I worked under claimed to be a big shot at a former company, I asked around at that company, no one even remembered his name let alone knew what he did. Again, more politics.

1.0
Aug 3, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Steady income. Retirement savings plans, and thankfully health and life insurance. Made several friends for life. Found success in team building, that was very rewarding

Cons

A legacy parts producer with a limited shelf life that no longer budgets for employee appreciation. The company remains nearly 85% male and this sexism is furthered by promoting men to lower management positions from strongly male dominated cultures who may not even be aware they tend to promote men before women. Micron has been working to reduce redundancy and non value tasks in Fab positions, but rarely rises to middle management jobs. Currently workers at the bottom of the production chain have picked up the off load of jobs from both the process and the tool sides. MT's are now very few with generally double the workload they started with, but very very minimal increase in pay. No one knows how much work came actually correctly completed in one 12 hour shift. It seems like a strange strategy for cost cutting. Employee headcount goes down to bare bones causing their workload to increase even more, which leads to greater risk to the product and lower tool efficiency. Does eliminating low end low paying jobs save enough money to offset scrapped wafers and loss of tool production time? Even when you consider these employees are doing double duty for essentially the same pay rate? Wouldn't retaining low cost labor instead provide an opportunity for a better distribution of work which could easily translate to less human scrap and less lost production time for tool malfunctions? Last, it doesn't matter how hard you work, how much you know, how well you document your development, if you ask for additional responsibilities or for development opportunities to benefit your performance. There is just one person, one person who can either help you get where you really want to go or make your life so miserable you can't even let it go once you've left for the day. They can count on your participation, use you to any extent they need, but toss you off the bus solely because they like someone better, and I've seen people go just because a manager has to chop heads, and he personally prefers someone else. How in 2017 can an international company hope to succeed when it doesn't even realize that from the top down, they promote managers who chooses employees not for their value to the company, but in a personality contest.

3.0
Jun 25, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The only sizable dram company out of Korea. Major US semiconductor companies and government as its sugar daddies. A few more years of dominance until Chinese company catch up.

Cons

People playing mind games and jabbing each other to get ahead. Uncertainty of how the power struggle between new CEO and existing senior management.

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