Test Development Engineer • Current Employee
Pros: - High starting salary for a fresh graduate
- Has competitive benefits: meal allowance, shuttle, 13.5 month pay, variable bonus, car/house loan subsidy, educational assistance, RSU(if you're lucky to be given)
- Great place to start if pursuing a career in semiconductor
Cons: - Low annual salary increase, sometimes less than inflation (which is unusually common for semiconductor companies in the PH)
- Shortage of ATE testers resulting in night shift and weekend work schedule. Sometimes you will be asked to continue working instead of taking lunch due to very limited tester allocation
- If you are the newest member of the team, chances are you will be the one to take the night shift, weekend schedule, and support the production on holidays
- Politics is very evident. If the upper management doesn't know you, you will never be promoted. Promotion is based on 60% popularity 40% performance
- You rarely have any say where your career will be heading. Internal mobility is decided by the management, never by the engineer
- There is a lot of leg work for the engineer: pushing handler and other heavy equipment, repairing/troubleshooting the equipment, withdrawing units boards and spare parts, shipping units, and other things that can be assigned to an operator/technician but sadly they are part of the responsibilities of an engineer