Pros
1) If you are looking for intellectual satisfaction, this is a wonderful place, full of incredibly smart, seasoned professionals, where some of the most senior technicians can design integration flows.
2) There are a lot of very hard workers here, which encourages your own hard work in return.
3) The product we are bringing to market is highly disruptive and the potential is there (as long as we can manage to increase production, which means more people are needed as well as more tools and equipment).
4) Other fabs typically type-cast you into one area or process module. Here, the sky is the limit, you can have an etch engineer who is also a CMP guy, or a diffusion expert also own wet cleans or etches.
5) Competitive industry pay and benefits.
Cons
1) Not a lot of potential for off-time.
2) Short-staffed, so tons of responsibilities can fall on limited people (especially on night shift)
3) Supply chain and purchasing limited in their ability to perform their jobs due to nature of being a start-up environment.
