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Good places to learn a lot in R&D units; not good in Fab

Senior Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at TSMC for 4 years
September 6, 2016
Hsinchu, Taiwan
4.0
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Pros

There are many talented and experienced people working together to solve the process and integration issues. Although some integration engineers cannot decide which approach is better, they want all tries, and that makes the process engineers exhausted.

There are also some efficient utilities to assist engineers in digging out useful data for troubleshooting. IT support is great.

Salaries and bonuses are much better than other companies in Taiwan (although not comparable to the big ones in US).

Cons

Too many trivial rules and unreasonably tight specs to follow, and that induces engineers to make fake data in order to pass the tool releasing to the manufacture.

Most Fab engineers do routine, trivial, and boring work every day.

Poor work-life balance for most positions (especially Fab positions), but it depends on which role you're playing.

Advice to Management

Stop creating stupid rules to constrain your engineers.

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