Micron Technology reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(7,858 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 7,858 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
Feb 5, 2023

Interesting work

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Pros

The most positive aspect of working at Micron is that the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry is an interesting work environment for all disciplines of engineering. There is a large variety of systems and processes which require curious technical people to maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade. Memory chip technology improves every 12 months so change is constant. If you like change, you will love it.

Cons

Despite their superficial efforts, Management has never been able to make people feel valued. Sure, they love to say "people are our most valuable resource" but don't demonstrate it. Everyone working at Micron knows that the factories, processing machines, and raw materials cost billions and are really the most valuable assets. To make things worse, Micron has adopted a forced-ranking performance management system that forces managers to use the full distribution of ratings (1 through 5) during yearly performance reviews. This is like the old GE system of terminating 10% of the workforce every year to create turnover. There are many experienced and talented employees at Micron and some groups are mostly comprised of these types. This forces managers of those groups to artificially rate people high and low. This leads to employees distrusting the process and Management and reduces collaboration due to internal team competition. Please note that Micron Top Management would claim that what I'm saying about the forced-ranking is not true, but I've talked with a number of mid-level managers, off the record, and they've confirmed it.

1.0
Oct 6, 2022
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Pros

If you're a shareholder, you are the company's #1 priority

Cons

Watching the executives discuss why they had to pay almost a billion in Q4 for stock buy backs & a shareholder dividend but didn't have enough cash and had to stop merit increases or pay increases for people that received promotions. But don't worry! They have 11 billion in cash to ensure the company isn't going under.

1.0
Sep 7, 2022
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Pros

Good upper leadership Strong manufacturing mentality

Cons

Terrible mid level to low level leadership Too much time creating powerpoints, not enough time collaberating High culture of finger pointing. If something goes wrong, expect to be blamed vs fixing/analyzing the problem Everything is a fire fight, no clear prioritization of work

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