Strong engineering culture; very demanding job; poor work life balance
Strong engineering culture; very demanding job; poor work life balance
The company was founded several decades ago, but it is still engineering centric. There is a strong engineering culture and good process optimized for hardware development. There are many opportunities to work with very talented colleagues and learn to be better.
The work-life balance is bad because of the constant competition and schedule pressure in the semi equipment industry. Also it is not a very good place to develop a career for software engineers because software is rarely a standalone product/service in this company. No matter how bad the software is, customers are locked in by the hardware.
Pay your employees better.
Invest more capital in R&D with high risks to excite your talented engineers.
Do not become a financial engineering company.
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