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If a job at Sanmina happens to be your first professional opportunity, then you will be prepared for any eventuality in life. With no focus on personal development, appraisals being a mere formality and upward mobility resulting from accidents instead of merit or by design, anything that follows Sanmina in your professional career will be a joyride. The company culture has a strong focus on meaningful optics such as ensuring that an overwhelming portion of the Gantt charts for projects are colored green instead of red or amber and adding plant level executives to meetings which require only half a dozen stakeholders. The different departments across the company are also in alignment with each other on the most fundamental matters. For example, sending weekly reports for projects in spite of weekly calls for project updates is seen as a value adding activity by both the Project Management Office and Corporate Process Improvement Team. The only thing that both these departments consider redundant is asking questions like, "Why on earth do we spend 30 minutes a week every Friday creating reports no one reads?". In summary Sanmina cherishes three basic principles. 1) Always follow orders from upper management. If they tell you night is day and day is night, you should start wearing sunglasses when there is moonlight and try to render your own version of 'Road with Cypress and Star' with a brightly shining Sun. 2) Optics are paramount. Are your projects ridden with issues? Is the deadline you initially planned for solution delivery increasingly seeming unrealistic? Are the plants in your portfolio figuratively or even literally on fire? Do not worry. There is nothing that a good pivot table of project metrics and a couple of pie charts cannot solve. This principle will probably also apply in real life. The next time you have marital issues and your spouse asks for a divorce, you can always whip out a few charts with metrics completely tangential to the issue in question and convince your partner that the marriage is working. 3) Learn to play poker. Passing the buck is a favorite pastime here. Working here will make you quite skilled at evading responsibility and pointing the finger at someone else. If you think you are loyal to a co-worker and couldn't possibly throw him under the figurative bus, you are mistaken. A stint at Sanmina will make you so focused on individual goals that deception, acting in your own self interest and prevarication will all seem moral and necessary. This is a life skill that will come in handy should you decide to become a mob boss some day.
The pros far outweigh the cons. People keep on quitting their jobs, so there is always a new crop of talent. The solutions we develop keep on having issues, so there is always more work for us to do. (Bastiat was wrong. Broken window theory is not a fallacy) The top down approach to adoption of new technology throughout the organization also suits us since most of the people want to just follow orders and not spend energy on something as wasteful as thinking for themselves. There aren't many cons that I can think of but if I were being really nitpicky, I would say that the cafeteria staff in more than one plant cannot cook rice. But that is completely understandable given that this is a very complex process and involves filling water in a vessel, boiling it along with the rice and then turning the stove off after a few minutes.
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