Thread regarding Micron Technology Inc. layoffs

just left! 20% base salary range, higher bonus, and 1.5x RSU in boise. there’s life outside of MU!

I was working there until the pay was enough to compensate the pain. Once I got better pay and less pain, I moved on.

Sounds like the best thing to happen to some of you negative nellies was actually getting laid off. You really need to look into the mirror and question why you would continue to work at a company you loathed so much. No one individual is looking out for your success more than you, be selfish and pursue happiness.

All you Kool aid drinkers are liars and fool. The only positive about working for Micron, is when you leave. This is because every place you work after is so much better in every way the rest of your life becomes gravey.

I think the best things to do with the technology we have in hand today is to really study the companies you're applying to. Just remember when interviewing, you're not the only one being interviewed, YOU should be interviewing your potential manager/supervisor. Find out what type of managing they do.

I'm currently going through the interview process right now, and have interviewed with big and small companies with red flags waving at me through the whole interview process. One manager literally told me he liked to micro-manage, HUGE red flag.

From what I've seen so far is that companies with actual diversity seem to be easier and more professional.

I think the problem with large corporations like Micron are more like you won't feel valued as an employee. Maybe your direct manager will value you, or even your co-workers. But from VP and up, they just don't know you at all. So when performance or layoffs are being evaluated from those levels, they just see "Generic Employee A".

Mid-sized / smaller companies see you way more differently. In the right environment, you can be a super star in the eyes of the VP or even CEO. Where everyone in the company knows you as a person. The work you do, brings an actual impact to the company and can potentially set you up for a bigger role later down the line.

Well, the ’small company’ experience I narrated, was exactly what happened to me and others too. Words said there are too terse to narrate here in actuality.
Depending on the company, can get as toxic as he-l.
They finally hired a HR who got the mandatory anti bullying and the like trainings and for supervisors done. Then on they realized whatever they had done, they could so easily be sued, then on they were professional. Took a huge tool on my mental health though. Lost 20 pounds of weight. That too when working without any single vacation day off and actually delivering features to the product. Choose your work place wisely.
Micron has been my best place to work.
Hope you have better experiences too.
No other place communicate so much, chances to ask, et el. It’s better than most. All are trying to do an honest eat job.

That's kind of funny. The guy with all the bullet points almost exactly describes what is wrong with Micron. I think the only one that doesn't is the "no HR, no anti bullying practices." I was bullied several times at Micron and ya know what I did? I told those losers to shut the F up and get back to work. They were eventually laid off in the 2008 rift and I got the last laugh. The only people I ever saw cry to HR were whiny little weenies that couldn't stick up for themselves. Also, the management I had to deal with was completely inept and incompetent. The hiring manager was intimidated by people smarter than him so he would only hire people who he didn't feel threatened by. Next thing I know, I'm surrounded by dotards that don't have the mental capacity to learn to do the job. My job eventually turned into fixing all the things that my coworkers would accidentally break. And before anyone tries to point out that he hired me so what does that say, no he didn't. He was forced to take me and a few other top performers when our department closed down in the last layoffs. I was amazed at how little the people around me knew about most basic technical knowledge. Anyway, Micron is a boat full of id--ts steered by greedy narcissists and will eventually collapse. I'm just trying to hold on a few more years so I can retire.

"Micron is a great place to work at. Solid management. Great engineers, seasoned, people."
This sounds like more propaganda from Micron which is probably the only thing Micron excels at now.
I wonder where that came from.
I am surprised this does not show up on one of their many propaganda monitors along with the stock price.

Micron is a top-heavy tech plantation. It has a giant beaucracy that isn't terribly bright or knowledgeable.
It needs to pay for itself though. That is where the cheap young labor force comes in which mostly consists
of interns that can be hired cheaply or H1B visa folk that are bound to the company. Most are not able to do much
and they lack precision in their work. This has increased Micron's technical debt greatly.
The problem is then excerbated because they only hire people like themselves, maybe for job protection, which is a sort of
of inbreeding and isolationism. Anyone with any experience and ability coming into the company will notice this immediately.

DEI is a rascist scam designed to get more laborers period in order to reduce their cost and to make them
more easily (what is the kind word here) interchangeable. If Micron wants to talk about ethics, it can talk
about a lack of greed, integrity, and accountability. Also it can focus on hiring great physicists and engineers
in their field instead of everything else.

People looking for work at Micron should try and interview with as many people as possible there to see this
and compare what you see with what you see at other companies.
Investors need to be wary of the oncoming tech failures much like what happened with Intel.

Micron is a great place to work at. Solid management. Great engineers, seasoned, people.
Smaller companies have Pros and Cons,

• Can get toxic as he-l.
• Ego’s of first joiners do come in the way of visibility and high impact projects. Nothing of high value may come your way. You may get never included in any of external communication, even for your work.
• Only one way communication. No feedback loop, no engagement surveys that get acted upon for improvements.
• No HR, no anti bullying practices in place.
• One may be at the mercy of a couple of people unless one wants to fight it out, all the way up.
• Funding may run out, especially in these high interest times. Every minute they maybremind you of funding getting over and layoffs impending and be thankful you still have a job. Not a healthy productive, professional environment to be in.
• Lot depends on how mature the organization is, seed stage, series A, B stage start up vs Series D+ stage startup or pre-IPO, post IPO.
• DEI is a good thing. People would be incentivized to be inclusive, and disincentivized from being mean.

Smaller is better. You will be treated as a person with value and not just an employee number. You can leave work every day knowing your contribution matters to the company and you made a difference. I worked at Micron 25 years ago and that's how it was. Now, it doesn't matter if I work hard all day or sit on my bu-t all day and do the bare minimum. My boss only comes in the fab once a week now and has no clue what's going on. We used to work side by side. It's a sad state of affairs at Micron today. Sad.

I work for a smaller company and I disagree with your assessment of less progressing. Smaller companies tend to have less bureaucracy, better alignment from the top down, flatter organizational structure, lesser DEI influence, and the compensation can be equally good for 98% of the workers. Bigger isn't better.

Agree. The only problem is that with all the layoffs going on there is so much competition depending on the role you're applying for.
I'm having the problem where my resume is auto filtered by all these companies using job application apps like workday.