Amkor Reviews

Pros

Amkor is the one of the most advanced semiconductor packaging company in the world.
Amkor gives a lot of chance to develop myself.

Cons

Even though Amkor is the most advanced company currently, Amkor should invest more to develop new technology, and give more benefit and take care of employee.

Advice to Senior Management

Please consider to give more salary & benefits to emploees who are working at outside of USA.
It makes prevention of turn over the current employees.

Pros

Various work experience & wide knowledge

Cons

less level of employee encourgement

Advice to Senior Management

Vision & leadership

Pros

Interesting technology, and good people.

Cons

Too many times politics trumps engineering. To much management, The company is changing for the worse.

Advice to Senior Management

Be bolder

Pros

Multicultural environment, Compensation and benefits are above the standards. Training courses offered to employees.

Cons

Working environment is "fast-paced" and stressful. Work overload. Retrenching employees without remorse.

Advice to Senior Management

Top Management needs to look closely to organizational structure to eliminate redundant employees.

Pros

A lot of things to learn

Cons

Low payment and long working hours

Advice to Senior Management

Share more with your employees

Pros

Leading technology in semiconductor packaging/test industry

Cons

No special bebefit to employee for the achievement

Pros

Before the layoffs and the work was outsourced to Asia, Amkor at RTP was a good place to work. The work was interesting and the salary was competitive.

Cons

We were lead to believe that our RTP fab had a place in the Amkor overall strategy. Instead it was mostly shut down.
The upper and middle management was in frequent flux.

Advice to Senior Management

More detailed communication from the upper managment during the multiple rounds of layoffs would have been helpful. Instead information was often kept vague.

Pros

benefits are the best
work from home for some
family friendly
work on the newest technologies
locations are good.
when times are good, mgt takes care of its employees.
quickly getting us out of debt.

Cons

Easily get pigeonholed in a position and left there.
To top heavy management
BOD doesnt really understand the game plan
Not embracing newer marketing venues such as Social Media, Social Marketing and such.
raises are far and in-between.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut half the directors, sr. directors, vps, corp vps and start embracing telecommuting as this saves space at facilities, 4/10 shifts or nite shifts for folks that would need that for their children.

Pros

Decent benefits. Expanding business opportunities world-wide.

Cons

Lower salaries than industry average. Korean and American cultural differences can make progress slow and labored. Senior management decisions to not pursue some technology advancements more aggressively will likely be detrimental to the company in the long run.

Advice to Senior Management

Empower the employees more to give better results. Communicate company objectives to all ranks, not just senior management.

Pros

Benefits and infrastructure/work environment are good and commendable

Cons

Lower salary/compensation compared with other companies

Advice to Senior Management

higher salary offer