Here you go from a multiple ex Micron employee over the last three decades due to layoffs, large or small.
Boise and Idaho pay them for training. With this last deal that was extended as part of the expansion. "Micron does not pay land tax as long as they are training people". That's a quote from local news. That money is now more than 20K per person/year. At Micron, "training" is 18 months. This coincides with the reviews timing with layoffs. Train, get your money, let the person go, and hope desperation brings them back. Just so Micron can repeat the process, keep things cheap, and get their tax breaks. They are double dipping with Boise and Idaho's blessing. Add Right to Work, Micron controlling Boise by threats to leave if they don't get those tax breaks, and you can see how the nepotism, fear of keeping your job, and bad work environment blossoms.
Boise does not have any real high paying tech jobs unless you have been established with that company for 10 plus years. Even then it is doubtful. I was targeted in my last time round with an extremely poor rating on a job review. So bad that the guy reading it to me apologized profusely that he had no idea where the comments had come from and would have been totally opposite if he had wrote it. But had to, "Tow the line as a manager, since he didn't write it". The manager who wrote my review would not even come to the meeting and used this guy as a patsy. Learn his fate below..
Six months later, due to Micron's review, I went to work for another tech company in the valley for nearly $4 less per hour, out of necessity. Six months later, I saw both my Micron day and night shift managers at the same company knowing they had to take the pay cut as well to be hired. One of the guys definately did not deserve it. This is the sad reality abd fallout from Micron's business policies. Do not work for this company, or you will face what I and others have above.
I know of managers that have lasted three decades quit over the updated tiered review system. Mandating to give two people from each group of ten or more, one's or two's. They would not give a good or great worker those false low scores. This mandate is what Micron uses to choose who is part of the next layoff cycle. Point blank.