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Be ready for layoffs!

Manufacturing Technician
Former Employee
Worked at Intel for 9 years
April 8, 2014
Albuquerque, New Mexico
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Great pay, time off, and health insurance.

Cons

Crappy schedules. A lot of technicians get stuck working nights, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., and cannot get off of them. You have to work weekends and holidays all the time, also. Lately, raises have been very little or none at all. Biggest of all, you have to worry, "Will I have a job next year, or will I have to move to another state just to hopefully keep it if I am lucky?"

Advice to Management

Make it easier to move from the technician role into other areas of the company besides supervisor or engineering.

Support techs that want to move into other areas of the business like accounting, finance, or HR.

Make it more fair for everyone and rotate the night shift schedule between all employees.

The 16% night shift differential is not anywhere near enough compensation for the sacrifice to your body and home life that working nights is!

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