https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/chip-maker-tsmc-needs-hire-100000012.html On the Glassdoor profile of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC—the world’s biggest manufacturer of semiconductor chips—current and former U.S. employees swap messages about grueling working conditions. “People… slept in the office for a month straight,” an engineer wrote in August. “Twelve-hour days are standard, weekend shifts are common. I cannot stress… how brutal the work-life balance is here.” “TSMC is about obedience [and is] not ready for America,” another engineer wrote in January. TSMC’s U.S. operations have earned a 27% approval rating on Glassdoor from 91 reviews—meaning that less than a third of its reviewers would encourage others to work there. Intel, one of TSMC’s main rivals, has an 85% approval rating, albeit from tens of thousands more reviews. Complaints like these are common on Glassdoor, where anonymity gives workers cover to dish on past and current employers. But the gripes from TSMC workers point to a bigger problem: The Taiwanese chip giant’s tough culture is grating on U.S. employees and job candidates, complicating TSMC’s efforts to hire enough employees to staff its two new Arizona foundries. Those foundries, in turn, are a cornerstone of the U.S.’s $52 billion CHIPS Act aimed at re-shoring the crucial semiconductor industry.
TSMC doesn't want to be here, and they really don't want American workers. At first they wanted work authorization to import their labor into a camp/dorm like they have in Taiwan, but Biden said no. Now they have to learn to deal with workers who are willing to quit bad working conditions.
> TSMC doesn't want to be here, and they really don't want American workers. All these companies want are indentured servants they can push around. Americans have learned over time that they can push back. This is why companies lobbied for visa programs.
Its a good move for the US .. having TSMC at China’s doorstep is a huge risk
Yeah we don’t really dig 996 here
I think you are wrong. Most of the Bay Area companies are like Asian or Indian companies. People work 24/7. It’s crazy. No WLB.
Have you seen people working at the banana company?
What’s the medium-long term impact on employees working like this? I understand a lot of East Asian companies expect their wage slaves to be chained to their desk crazy hours
You are lucky to be in Lockheed Martin.
The article mentions that they send new hires to Taiwan for intense training, 18 months. This remarkably, is technology/knowledge transfer to the US: the opposite direction from what we are used to. We're not talking about sweat shop labor, they're hiring PhDs. For tsmc, this venture makes no economic sense. This venture is motivated by national security concerns on both sides. Whatever the reason, for the young, ambitious and overeducated, this could be a stepping stone to something great.
A terrible company does terrible things. Yet another company to avoid applying to. Amazing what happens when employees are allowed to discuss toxic working conditions under the pretense of anonymity. TC: 90K
Good luck to them for hiring and retaining American workers in this slave conditions. There are a zillion options here. Americans take little crap at work.
Hopefully those visiting Americans can teach the Taiwanese to stop taking crap
> Often best engineers are the ones not doing 996. Yep. 996 is all about butts-in-seats uncreative thinking. Just like Boomer notions of RTO. It’s control and little more.
Most of 996 in East Asia is the peon workers twiddling their thumbs waiting for their manager to go home before daring to get up from their seats to do the same. It's rarely high productivity hours from my experience. Lots of tea time and team lunches/dinners and fiddling on the phone. Just like everywhere else, 10% of the company does 90% of the work. Those people do more than 996 and their health and mind suffer greatly.
No wonder, USA still have tariff against Taiwan even though both are supposed to be allies against china. USA is afraid taiwanese workers will outcompete USA workers. Kind of odd point a dagger to your friend's back while public boasting fighting a common enemy
We do not want the slave work culture imported here. Thank you very much
extremely brutal and none of the operation make sense.... help me out... need referrals...
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