IM Flash Technologies Reviews

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – Even throughout the economic downturn, only a handful of non-critical positions were eliminated. Management worked very hard to keep everyone working here and to plan for the future. I never felt like my job was ever in any danger of being eliminated.

Cons – Monotonous, routine work. If you're not moving positions, then you're doing the same thing, day in and day out. Eventually it gets too repetitive and boredom sets in. But that is the reality of a manufacturing company. It all comes down to cranking out the product, day after day.

Advice to Senior Management – I feel that management does a good job given the circumstances. I don't think management could do much to make the job more "exciting" or fulfilling. It's a job. We do what we have to do. Management does a good job of communicating with the company as a whole and most people really appreciate that.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – Most advanced fab in the world
number of vacation days
reasonable benefits
Lots of challenging work to do
People are great to work with
Bonuses based on meeting internal goals.

Cons – Too many things to do. Few head count. But their hiring so that should some how help
Salary lower or just at par with other fabs.
Middle level manager transparency not good.

Advice to Senior Management – Great job. Expand IMFS but down forget to expand IMFT as well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – The medical benefits are among the best I have ever had. Tuition reimbursement. Good place to start learning semi-conductor.

Cons – Technicians rotate days to nights every 4 months. Terrible schedule for your health and sanity. For some reason though, production operations does not rotate? Go figure that one out.

  Even though IM Flash is an Intel/Micron joint venture this place is 100% Micron. It is 100% Boise Micron Management copy exactly. Too many "good ole boys" with the same way of doing things and always looking out for their buddies who have been around as long as they have.

   Micron does not give performance based raises, at least not once you hit that magical midpoint. Their goal is to stop everyone at the midpoint of their pay scale and the only way to get a raise once you hit that midpoint is to, get a promotion, or wait for a market analysis to show that IM Flash needs to pay people more to stay in line with the other semi conductor companies. So if you love your job and don't want to move to something else you will hit the midpoint eventually and spend the rest of your career with no pay raise. Imagine the moral in a company with such a practice. So if you are an over achiever, getting paid at the midpoint, you will work year after year with no raises watching the under achievers making more and more until all of you are making the same. They want world class products but don't want to pay to keep world class employees. So you are left with a lot of people who just come in, do their time, and go home. They are not motivated to give anything for the company because there is nothing in it for them if you are at the mid point.

    There are almost more leaders/managers than workers. In my group of 20 people 5 our managers. The shift managers have nothing to do all day but sit around and watch everyone work. They don't have any projects, no pressure to come up with improvements, don't notice or resolve issues they are just there. Micron then gives all the pay, and bonuses to mangers and supervisors and if you aren't one then your ideas and suggestions are not treated the same.

Advice to Senior Management – Too many chiefs and no raises will lead to the companies down fall. IM Flash Singapore will beat them on all costs in a few years. They need to use effective management by laying off 50% of their leads/supervisors/managers and trust the employees. They need to recognize people that do the work before the market rebounds and they lose all of their talent that makes the company world class. They need to stop this crazy 4 month rotation and pay a higher night shift differential and hire in new technicians on night shift to start. Do your time on night and then go to day permanently. It works for Intel and why they didn't copy this I will never know. That is proof enough for me to know that Intel hasn't had any influence on how this company runs. Glad I don't work there anymore.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – I make a decent salary and have a large amount of time off. I am also allowed to use that time off as I see fit and am not limited on when it can be used.

Cons – There is no room for advancement at IMFT. The company portrays it but in all actuality the opportunity just isn't there.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow more advancements. It IS cost effective. The cost of not promoting people is not easily seen on a budget sheet but it is there.

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – The Benefits are excellent

Continuous improvement

Cons – Seem to be hours based

Advice to Senior Management – Listen more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – Pay is good and benfits are good if they are not cut again. Compressed work schedule is nice. Paid time off is easily accumulated if you work on shift.

Cons – Lots of office politics which are very visible and obvious. Low promotion rate for employees that came here from outside of Micron. Lack of communication from day shift workers to shift workers which is very frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management – It is painfully obvious this is just another Micron site ran by recycled Micron management. Don't take employees for granted. Many are not happy and would gladly leave if not for the economic turmoil. It will be interesting to see what happens when the economy rebounds and there are other opportunities available.

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – Great benefits and bonuses, limited upward movement due to the size of the company.

Cons – Little opportunity to move up.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't force your ideals onto employees...small things make a big difference to the happiness of team members.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – Great management, very accomidating to military reservists

Cons – 12 hour swing shift work

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – Good pay. Long weekends if you can tolerate the long work days.

Cons – Benefits-You're stuck with Intermountain Health Care and nothing else, but beggers can't be choosers
Management is not as transparant as they lead us to think like most companies are. It's pretty much a Micron operation which is equivalent to sweat shop conditions. At any given day there are more managers and tool owners (arm chair engineers) sitting on their butts telling the fewer technicians what to do regardless of what kind of crap storm is going on in the fab (too many chiefs, not enough indians). If you come here from outside of Micron, don't expect to get promoted because the "Good Ole' Boy" managers and engineers from Micron are pretty much cemented in place. It's of no surprise that most if not all of the seconded Intel employees that were given an opportunity to work as an IMFT employee full time bailed on this place when the getting was good. And with the new promotion system in place, not only do people have to go to great measures to justify a promotion, which is what it should be, people that have been promoted before the changes have to go through great lengths to justify their position out of fear of getting demoted. The hardest workers are the ones that get put through the ringer and the slackers are coddled and babied by supervisors. No complaining about anything is tolerated unless you want to read a book or two that points out that everything that is bad happening in your work place is your fault and yours alone. Core values are only suited when it benefits managements reputation. They're more concerned about putting up an appearance that this is the greatest place in the world to work than they are about ensuring a smooth operation.

Advice to Senior Management – Managers and engineers....Get your heads out of the sand. The fab is not that far away from where your hind quarters are parked for 10 hours a day. Go in there, get a feeling of what is going on every so often...especially on the SHTF days when you're bitching about constraints while you're drinking your coffee looking at spread sheets and the techs are working themselves into a frenzie just to keep you happy. Stop treating the fab workers like a bunch of mindless drones and take complaints seriously or more and more people are going to walk. Alot of talented people already have and you just sit there oblivious as to why.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IM Flash Technologies

Pros – Shift schedule allows for easy vacations.

Cons – Bonuses - cut, pay - cut, retirement matching - cut. Essentially everything has changed since I relocated 800+ miles to work here. Promotions are a joke, company interviews are conducted solely to meet legal requirements, morale is the worst I have ever seen, and people in managerial positions are in these positions because they did well in their previous roles, and because of who they know, not because they have people and/or managerial skills, possess any analytical abilities, or are good at making decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Strongly consider the implications of your actions. IMFT has some very intelligent and talented employees, which IMFT went to great efforts to recruit. However, from what I've seen these same employees are also the most mobile, the most dissatisfied, and naturally will be the first to leave.

Nearly half the people in the immediate area I work in are actively seeking employment elsewhere. They're at IMFT out of necessity, not desire, which means they're not committed, invested, or motivated to help the company do well - they're there to get their paycheck until something else opens up. This obviously doesn't spell success for IMFT, but IMFT has looked like a fledgling Micron since day one, so these failures come as no surprise. Check the attrition records, and you'll notice that many people leave mere weeks after their obligated term to the company has ended, does this say nothing?

I hope that management has set some cash and time aside to recruit, possibly relocate, and train the next set of employees when the current set departs, since the next set can't all come from BYU, USU and UofU. And it would probably be best to adjust the production projections during this time to account for the general mess that will be the result of the learning curves of many new employees, disorderly introductions and mismanagement of infant part types in the fab, yield fall-out, tool failures and extended downtime durations, software glitches, and the propagated effects and overall chaos likely to ensue when your best and brightest leave.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend