Im an Intel employee in OR and have an interview with Samsung Austin Semiconductor in the coming weeks. Is it a good move if I get a good offer to leave Intel for Samsung?
What is your role at Intel?
Currently a sustaining Process engineer. YOE 3+ but been at Intel since 2016.
The team has not been "laid off and rebuilt so many times". The CPU program was cut 3 years back - 1 layoff. The GPU team is working hard. The people are good. Working with Korea is hard, but much better under the new president. Samsung is chronically understaffed (by design), which is a blessing for the motivated. Any improvement you make will be celebrated. You'll be moving from a team of thousands to a team of a few hundred. Tons of opportunity to make positive impact. You could literally know everyone's name if you wanted. I left for reasons unrelated to the job, and would go back if our paths cross in the future. They have plenty of problems, like any place, but the desire to make a solid product is very strong.
U r currently at Microsoft hardware?
I'll keep what anonymity I have left and keep the group I'm in private. 🙈
The GPU team of Samsung is a good unit. Filled with some talented individuals. The work life balance is excellent. Of course, the management and communication with Korea is a disaster but mostly engineering teams are shielded from that. The team is good but if they don't deliver a market competent product soon then there is a possibility of the teams getting sacked. So just be wary of that. But for now they are hiring aggressively so near future looks bright.
I work at Samsung Austin and also left Intel. I work with the AI lab in Canada though, so probably not directly relevant, but I have a lot of interaction with the GPU team. The Korean side of the GPU definitely has a Korean culture where the manager really is a boss. The American side is more American but sometimes the managers get forced into Korean type culture things.
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He said Samsung Austin Semiconductor. SAS has not had layoffs in at least 14 years and is doing a lot of hiring to prepare for the Taylor factory.