Pros

It is quite an opportunity for anyone to learn about hardware design and manufacturing. You have the opportunity to work with various hardware/(software) departments on issues and understand how to resolve.

Cons

Bad, very bad management here. Basically, managers have no leadership skills at all. Pretty much whatever goes and resolve when problem arised. No planning and organization at all for such public medium size company. Pretty much chinese style management and conservative ideaology.

Advice to Senior Management

Open up to new idea and stop the chinese management style. Higher role should do more macro management instead of too much focus on micro management. Have very good potential to grow if vision and management still changes.

Pros

Resist Layoffs as much as possible. Mistakes are can be harshly criticized and even made public example of as a result but few result in termination.

Cons

Long Hours, weekends, 24 hours on-call in many positions

Advice to Senior Management

Get training to open your eyes to other possibly more efficient styles of management

Pros

If you are a chinese who needs an H1B visa, please try Super Micro. Super Micro would not lay off you easily.

Cons

The salary is the lowest while the working hours are the longest (more than 11 hours a day, 6 days a week), you will be pushed to beyond your limit, a typicial chinese (taiwanese) company, their strategy is to hire Chinese who need H1-B visas, then treat them like slaves.

Advice to Senior Management

Employers are the great asset of the company, stop treating them like slaves. Stop doing business in the Chinese way!