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Product Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Supermicro for less than 1 year
March 8, 2025
San Jose, CA
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

RSU Stocks, which they give you a ton of, and total comp could be higher than industry average depending on how well the stock performs. Stable, easy job. Good people for the most part, but it definitely depends on what team you get into. Nice big campus. Good health benefits. Free breakfast & dinner boxes.

If you speak Mandarin, Viet, or Canto, and just want a job with average pay and good benefits to take care of your family, and do not care about work-life balance or career growth, this is honestly great.

Cons

Unflexible hours; you need to come in at 9am no matter what, and it doesn't matter how late you worked until on the previous day.

Hard to find parking; why hire so many people if you don't even have space for them?

Noisy, crammed office area, with people coughing all the time.

Insanely outdated, inefficient system.

Most staff can barely speak English nor are skillful, and they are trapped in this Chinatown, and other companies likely will never hire them for this reason alone, and people around you either stay for 1 year or 20 years.

I appreciate how the company will never do layoffs, but half the staff could be gone, and the company will function just fine.

Advice to Management

Give your employees more flexible hours. If you rate them based on how long they stay in the office, most people just sit around scrolling their phones to make time pass.

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