Not the happy place it has been i the past. - Engineering Technician Micron Technology Employee Review

2.0
Oct 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits package, great people. Profit sharing.

Cons

No feeling of job security, the current performance model demands 8% layoffs each and every year. Even if every employee excels someone will still need to go. Micron promotes employee contentment on one hand and slaps them around with the other. Not many employees are happy with this new model, supervisors are telling employees they are doing great at midyear reviews and then being forced to lower the review rating and offer the employee a severance package at years end. I have been told this comes directly from Sanjay and no one has the balls to tell him this is wrong. He believes that there is always room for improvement, which is true, but this is a drastic way of achieving that goal. He is attempting to instill performance through fear.

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Cons

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Pros

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