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A very mediocre place to work

Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at TSMC for 4 years
April 12, 2017
Hsinchu, Taiwan
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Senior management was great, humble, and helpful.

Accumulated knowledge, invited speakers from famous institutions.

Top-notch fabs.

Salary.

Activities, infrastructure.

Cons

Motivation is extremely low.

Horrible information sharing among groups and departments.

Lots of unnecessary pressure.

Uber long working hours (14 hours/day regularly, 16-18 hours are no exception).

Low-level (technical) managers are proud and bossy.

The company is too large; newcomers have a hard time having any impact.

Bad company culture.

Constant IP brainwashing.

Overtime up to 3 hours is considered "daily workload" and is not compensated for.

Advice to Management

Improve motivation - management does not know how to inspire young people and only cares about getting things done fast.

Change IP policy - IP causes huge inefficiencies among department communication.

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