Micron Technology reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(7,850 total reviews)
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Sanjay Mehrotra

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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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3.0
Oct 8, 2014
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Pros

The pros I list here are for Micron's Virginia site. The site had an excellent employee training program for new hires and employees with a few years of experience. The yearly review was very structured and I would venture to say it was fair. There is a career ladder which lists the requirements for promotions and so on. Basically, the site was very orderly and structured. I feel that employee development was very good, up to a certain point. I think the benefits are good. I was an above average employee and I got promotions every 2 - 3 years. But if you're not getting promotions, the salary increase will certainly stagnate. The promotions also use to be very difficult, but it seemed to have relaxed in the last few years.

Cons

The cons I list here are for Micron's Virginia site. Some of these cons might apply to any semiconductor fab and not just to Micron's Virginia fab. This is a fab environment, so everyone is expected to be on site by 8am. There is a daily morning meeting to discuss what happened the day before. For some people, there is also a daily tactical meeting where a representative from every team in the fab meets to discuss the issue. There always seems to be too many meetings. This site is Micron's only wholly owned fab in the US. It is has become a legacy fab and I don't expect there to be any new technologies to be coming to this site. The culture seems to be focused on how much time you spend at work and not about results. I think the strongest argument for this point of view is that one of the metrics for promotions is starting/ending times at the site for a 3 - 6 month period. If the person about to be promoted didn't spend enough hours at work, their promotion would be delayed. The last con I can think of is that this site is the only semiconductor site in the northern VA area. This leads to a lack of competition for Micron. Employees can't negotiate very well in this kind of environment and management doesn't see any need to offer any sort of perks for their employees.

2.0
Mar 6, 2014

Don't do it

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great PTO plan but that is about it sorry to say.

Cons

Without a doubt the worst place I have ever worked. Management is left over want to be's from Boise. If they're not, they are poor substitutes for any real managers. One of them actually had the whole shift go to human resources over him. They actually moved him to another shift demoting one of their best leads who was not from Boise.They micro manage people in the worst way. This is why we call it Micron micro management corporation. I was never so happy as to leave this company and all my coworkers were wishing they could leave too. With the exception of a few of course, the ones that back stab and make sure you look bad to make them you look good is what they relish the most. They actually use your coworkers to rate you for promotions so if you don't get a good peer review they deny you any promotions which is the only way you get a raise money wise. If one gives you a bad peer review you can get even by giving them a bad review to get even. They can't even have the courage to deny promotions on their own which makes them cowards in my option. I hope the best for my ex-coworkers but I don't see any real happy future for them and the sorry thing is they know it.

1.0
Sep 2, 2013
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Pros

Excellent benefits and time off, they play a good role of pretending to care about the employees (until it goes up against their bottom line), 12 hour work schedules are the best thing about this job, and the night differential is generous too.

Cons

They are cheap when it comes to maintaining things, they have a "wait until it breaks, then we'll fix it" mentality. You, the employee, don't exist when it compares to competing with Samsung for the #1 spot in the memory business. They don't care about the effects of their actions and how much the employees have done for them when they make decisions that impact their lives. It doesn't matter, it's what the company wants. They are going to soon be a completely 100% overseas company because labor and costs are cheaper over there. It's not a coincidence that top management is starting to get sent over there for 1 year stints, then others go, then others and so on. The writing is on the wall. Fortune 500 company and being a place people want to come and work is very low on their priority list, they just want to catch Samsung. I was aboard the Micron ship, until they were ready to drop you and your entire department in the drop of a hat to send you to a contractor with shitty benefits and no vacation, no sick leave, and no night shift differential. They (management) could have searched jobs within the company and did direct transfers of our department across the board to other positions within. Instead, they once again took the cheap way out and sent everyone of us to this crappy contractor that no one wants to work for with a horrible reputation (Securitas Security Services, read about them on here too). Micron, I hope to hell these selfish decisions come back to bite you in the ass, BIG TIME. I can't wait, I just want to be a fly on the wall when all your good knowledgeable employees leave and all you have left to turn to is a revolving door of crackheads with no common sense and no work ethic and the longest job they've held is about a month or two, try to run your security department. Get ready, your ship is about to sink and good riddance to a bunch of cheap, no good selfish, spineless bastards. Fly your Securitas flag high as your ship goes down!!

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