X-FAB Silicon Foundries Reviews

Pros

Compressed work week. Once you are converted you have paid time off if it is approved. Overtime when you want it.

Cons

Probation period is long but understandable. They want to hire people who understand the work. Training is hit/miss with some areas.

Pros

Work 3 days off 4, then second week work 4 off 3days

Cons

You mess up once they dont give you a second chance

Pros

Steady hours, decent benefits. Friendly staff.

Cons

Very poor training, extremely underdeveloped managment staff. Culture circles around blaming instead of correcting root causes. No room for advancement almost never promote experienced employees. Most higher level positions are never filled by qualified canidates within the company.

Pros

The people that work there are really great. Pay is fair for location. Learn a lot about how to be better engineer.

Cons

Flat organization so not a lot of chances to move up in company. Not a lot options for health insurance. Not many extra incentives.

Pros

Knowledgeable manufacturing coworkers and engineers. Peers are generally helpful and welcoming. If you work in areas such as thinfilm, ye, implant, or test probe, you will end up doing very little work throughout the shift.

Cons

Pay is just enough to keep up with inflation. Business model us horrendous. Middle management has no understanding of what manufacturing does. Upper management doesnt seem to know if their middle management is doing a good job or not since no matter what metrics they look at middle management hasnt been changed in years. Lower management is a mixed bag. The more tenured are mostly knowledgeable and it is evident with how quickly they deal with any issues that arise. Others are no more than glorified time card stampers, who have less knowledge of what is going on daily than a bird looking through a window. Low level employees seem to be held to a higher standard than their suppervisors and it shows with mist of them being more knowledgeable than their supervisors.