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Low pay, little to no opportunity for advancement, you have to work there for a very long time before you can move up. They advertise that they’re paying up to $18, but i’ve never heard of anyone over $16.50, even with experience in the industry. They do not communicate very efficiently between shifts, and because of this, managers will tell you to come in on a different shift 2 weeks in advance, then when 2 weeks comes along, they will claim you shouldn’t be on that shift. You also work on machines from 70’s-90’s, so everything you do takes a minimum of five minutes. 
No training, so if you’re new to the industry you’re screwed. 
They set you up to shadow an “experienced” person and make you train on a completely different shift than what you sign up for. They assigned me a trainer, but didn’t notify him ahead of time (red flag!!). I showed up, waited for a supervisor for 20 minutes on my first day and a supervisor lead me to the one guy who works on my machine. My trainer was someone who worked there for two months, and only got 4 days of training himself, so he didn’t really know what he was doing. He was also absent most of the time, so that didn’t help either.
They will let you go for the smallest thing, so good luck! They also claim to have no clue as to why people leave within a month of starting, but I shall leave you guys a summary:
First of all, you need more in class training so we get to know more about what we’re doing in the fab, and what we’ll be doing in there.
 Heading up to my starting day, I didn’t know what the machine I’m working on did. 
Second of all, you guys need to up the pay to match your competitors. If you want to save yourself some scrap, buy new machines and limit the operators contact with wafers.
Third, work on communication between shifts and scheduling! I cannot stress this enough.

The company would have great values if they tried to actually make them a part of the job but they don’t. Worst management of all time. There’s a clear divide between good supervisors and bad, and if you are unlucky enough to get a bad one just know you’ll be there for years promised great advancement and get nothing because they care more about budgets and their own butt than making their team better. The supervisors aren’t required to know what their team actually does day to day, so when the team is struggling, instead of helping they will tell you to to better, yell at you if you don’t and go right back to sitting in their corner doing nothing because they don’t know how to do things on the floor. If you’re a hard worker your average day will be running around for 12 hours doing the jobs of likely 4 people since turnover never allows for proper staffing, then when it comes time for your evaluation you’ll be told you’re doing everything right and exceeding expectations, but the company doesn’t have money for raises or promotions. You’ll be told they are coming soon, and end up 3/4 through the year before one is finally given. And the only reason they caved and gave raises was the threat of becoming a union was on their hands, not because they knew their workers deserved it. You’ll get to listen to all the meetings where stocks are great,  customers are so happy and the company is doing great, then be told that you need to double your workload to make things even better for the company, but we can’t do raises or promotions right now because the company can’t afford it. The only reason you’d hate leaving is the few amazing coworkers you have.

I am a current employee for the Security Department at Maxim Integrated Products at San Jose, CA. I have been with the security department for over ten years.
In the past two years the Department has gone through a lot of changes with management and staff. In my first decade at Maxim, majority of the staff stayed in tacked for a long period of time. No one ever got fired, or resigned. The Management back then took care of their fellow officers like family. We as a department had each other’s best interest.
At this moment, the Department has gone through a negative turn around; a complete 360 degrees. Majority of the security officers feel like they are walking on egg shells. If the (Supervisor or Manager) at the San Jose location, has an issue with you or your job performance you better believe that you will not get an adequate warning or review. They will terminate you faster than you got hired.
Back stabbing if very common with the staff. The reason why I think this issue has been happening on a regular basis is due to the officers being afraid of getting fired or laid-off.
I am giving a fair warning to anyone that wants to work for the Security Department.
If you can handle the stress of losing your job (any minute) while you are conducting your duties, Maxim Security is the right place for you. But if you cannot handle the stress, move on and find a more rewarding job that will take care of you and your family.

Management only serves to micromanage for their own interests such as big bonuses and raises, low compensation for work that is alot harder than it needs to be due to dated tools that rarely function the entire shift. No support staff, Micromanaging of breaks, conflicting goals of moving product vs following a poorly weighted schedule program. They use this metric to hold your yearly raise over your head. Constantly severely understaffed, underpaid and overworked. Night shift is treated the worse, the cafeteria is never open, serving only hours old snacks if there is any left when you get your first break. People often become ill when eating here.

Management is disconnected and those inside the Fab itself know nothing of how the tools operate , maintenance is elitist and the engineers mess around with the tools whenever they see fit and expect you to do all the correcting and calibrating. The company can not keep up with the revolving staff, experienced operators are leaving and new people rarely stay for more than a few weeks if that.

Only work here if you need a paycheck or decent medical benefits, they only need you as a body. Due to the high stress and low satisfaction, no one inside the fab looks happy or healthy. Use this place to get a foothold somewhere else, sadly.

Retrieve and receive wafers from FAB, sort wafers, prioritize testing, test wafers and ensure test results are accurate.  Visually inspect all wafers on microscope.  Ship wafers to Assembly. 

Supervisor had cursory knowledge of work details, and had scant time to keep us informed about company events, but was available if problems arose or we had questions.  Sometimes results were promised before testing had begun, so when there were tool issues the timeline he set could not be met.

The  lofty guidelines established by the founder were seldom heeded, e.g. do not be afraid to make mistakes, learn from them.  Employment had two tiers:  engineers (salaried) had far fewer restrictions placed on them than did the tool operators (hourly).
Lip-service was given to Team Effort, and it was usually the tool operator who was blamed for problems.

The hardest part of the job, I suppose, was when the department was inundated with multiple requests for immediate testing on a limited number of probers qualified for a specific die type.  There were times when the WIP remained high for long periods because of tool availability.

The enjoyable part of the job was getting to know and work with a broad range of people with different backgrounds.

Typically my worked there was highly enjoyable. I have regarded myself a jack-of-many trades and I was excited on the issues that I had to work with daily because they often required technical skills, management skills, peoples skills all at the same time. This is uncommon to most companies.

I leaned a lot from my pears and my leaders and the skills they have imparted in me are still what drives me today.

The Management team is very transparent, helpful, driven and knows how to drive the people under them. It was a privilege to work for them.

Relations with co-workers were always political since the company encouraged teamwork but still kept a healthy dose of competition between employees. Similarly the team was always like a group of friends willing to help each other and at the same time out to outperform a teammate.

The hardest part was sacrificing our personal time just so to have phone conferences with the teams from opposite sides of the globe. The time difference between the Cambridge site and the Philippine subcontractor was 12 to 13 hours.

The most enjoyable part was being able to use ones technical and management skills in an agglomerated sort of way were one was indispensable as the other.

The start of a typical day is catching up with the most recent issues and understanding what has been accomplished and where I should begin my investigation. I like to have a full grasp of what communications have been made about the concerns and the steps to figuring out where in the problem lays. Management wants to have a clear picture of the concerns and this was accomplished through various channels of communication. Documentation was a living, breathing system that continued to grow the factory in a level of comprehensions to better serve future issues and historic paths followed. Having learned that there are different models in each situation and developing the responses to the conditions better resulted in long term successes of tool operation. I often found it difficult to sift through the many levels of communication about an issue and taking it to the next level of understanding. I found it to be a pleasure at being challenged to a concept or a paradigm shift that provides a new idea.

As a Document Control Clerk I analyzed, modified, and maintained control of ECN'd documents in Docman (Legacy) and SAP DMS systems.  I released the current revision of documents that were (or) specifications, procedures, drawings to appropriate departments.  I provided complete quality checks on all outgoing work in accordance with established guidelines to ensure accuracy.  
In a typical day I also provided engineer support as I assisted them  in submitting their documents.  I learned how to navigate in the Legacy and SAP DMS systems.  I enjoyed the teamwork atmosphere at Maxim as it is a very positive place to work.  I had a wonderful manager that supported my goals and I was very sad to leave.  Had it not been for the outsourcing, I would still be working there.  I suppose the hardest thing for me was when on September 1st, 2017 it was announced that they would be laying me off on February 24th of 2018, the countdown and knowing I would no longer have a job saddened me.  The most enjoyable part of my job was the wonderful teamwork.  We had a great group and we all worked together fantastically.

ADI is a great place to work overall. As is true for many mature semiconductor companies, the hardware business has become commoditized of late, so achieving revenue growth is tough. Gone are the days of talking about becoming a $5B company. 

The good news is the company is very well managed for earnings, and financial performance is exemplary despite lackluster revenune gains. ADI is now a blue chip company that can be counted on to provide top notch EPS gains relative to the competition. 

Employees work very hard and long hours, but the work is generally satisfying. Benefits are very competitive in the Boston area, but seldom adequate for retention in the Bay area.

Over the past ten years many senior people that started the company have gone into the sunset, making way for the next generation to lead. Do not count on working here, or any tech firm beyond age 60. ADI has been generous in treating long time employees well as they depart - meaning severance packages are very good.

There are many worse places to make a career IMHO.

I was contracted out to work at Maxim Integrated. My boss wanted to hire me on permanently but upper management would not allow for it. They constantly overload the engineers and technicians with work because they refuse to hire. They have horrible policies and if you work there under a temporary agency HR treats you poorly. I have been working here for 3.5 years under a temporary agency. They had a change of company policy regarding temporary employees and now temporary employees can only work there for a year before they let them go. Seeing how I have been here 3.5 years I was the first to go. What ticks me about the situation is they did it without warning or a decent notification about being let go. Instead they told me I had five days to work then I could no longer work here. They should have told me a month ago that I needed to search for other jobs if they new there was going to be a change in policy not at the last minute. The problem is not the workers. People I worked with were awesome the problems is HR and upper management creating bad policy and refusing to spend money on new hires or on new equipment needed to perform work.

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