principal software engineer

technician

equipment engineer

application developer

senior staff engineer

Infineon Technologies

Twelve hour shifts means lots more time off. It also means that if you’re used to a lot of physical activity, this place will make you think twice on your fourth day of work in a row. My hips won’t ever recover, I think. 

Even that wasn’t a big deal. Lots of time off means I’ll gladly work through the pain to get there. No, what irks me most is the management that doesn’t seem to care about the amount of pain their employees are in and instead care about production metrics because the size of their bonuses. I was routinely complained at by my manager for sitting to rest for two minutes. Never mind the fact that my bay was in ship shape and all the tools were loaded and working fine. No, that only meant I should find something else to do after having just literally walked two miles in an hour, back and forth from the stocker to the machines in the bay. 

The job is easy. The managers pushing you to do more, never mind your health, are evil. Sound like a familiar company sharing a name with a rainforest?

Insurance is fine. Pay could always be better. Cool that there’s a cafe and convenience store on site, not cool that everything is hilariously overpriced and the cafeteria is the only thing that doesn’t operate 24/7.

We were told we should care about production metrics. We were never given any incentive to do so. Raises are too infrequent and too small to be worth concerning yourself with. 

People are not robots. Stop treating them like they are. 

A typical day at work starts immediately as you enter the cleanroom. While there you will be working constantly as there is little to no downtime. However, there are two paid thirty minute breaks and one unpaid 45 minute lunch.

Working here has taught me great time and risk management skills as well as the ability to train others in my line of work so that they can go about their daily duties more effectively.

Management here is good when they are directly above you but there is a severe disconnect past direct reports to your immediate manager. Thankfully, you don't often have to report to those above your immediate manager.

Workplace culture is up beat and with the right shift (being 1,2,3,4) swing shifts.

The hardest part of the job is making sure you don't fall behind. This requires an individual who can keep ahead of their workflow constantly while being able to function independently. While you can rely on others from time to time to pick up slack this will eventually be viewed in a negative context.

The most enjoyable part of the job are my fellow employees.

Infineon is a well run company with excellent technology and a heavy focus on producing technology that meets the needs for today's demanding market segments . However their local management( North America) had poor regard for experienced personnel and failed to clearly define roles and responsibilities and hold people accountable for doing their job. This placed a heavier  and unnecessary burden on those trying to perform their job tasks in line customer needs . In addition I found the  lack of cohesiveness between sales, marketing and engineering very frustrating and the atitude confrontational . The  inability to recognize and capitalize on market trends  and employ innovative ideas was also a frustrating part of the job .Managers seem to have no vision or initiative to evaluate new ideas and reward people those for creating them. This behavior was seemingly the opposite of what the company sought globally

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Infineon Technologies is pretty balanced. Usually you would volunteer if you wanted overtime. But they have regular shifts.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at Infineon Technologies are pay is a little bit low for a tech job in the Silicon Valley, but I guess it matches the work level and skill level as well.

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at Infineon Technologies, there is no job security there. 80% of their work is based on mostly government contract work. If work goes bad or gets slow, there goes your job!

Management
In general, managers at Infineon Technologies are for the most part fair.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Infineon Technologies is staff can be rude sometimes. And not very team friendly.

Overall
My experience working at Infineon Technologies started good, but ended bad. Management started making mistakes causing problems with employees. Shift managers at times were negligent, allowing employees to misbehave.

A typical day was trying to stay afloat. Training was to be conducted to 90% with your trainer each day. More like 1% and the rest you somehow figure it out. Too many unscheduled special projects or known as duties as needed.  I knew there was something seriously not right when I was elected to become a water boy. Lugging 12  five gallon water jugs from building to building was not my idea of technical work.
Training was basically leave you on the floor to magically figure it out.
Not to mention the operator level tests for a technician which you had to take home on your own time. I didn't know I elected myself to continue my education. 
You would be signed off for training that never happened.
Also asked to come in on different shifts as if I have nothing to do.
The agency continued to make mistakes on the shift differential and required two months to get it right. The health insurance never happened turned out the agency never submitted it.

Culture at the site I worked at was toxic, with no work life balance. All teams at the site were expected to work long hours and be available 24/7. I was nonchalantly asked by my manager to log on and work Saturdays and Sundays fairly often. The finance and costing team in Mesa and Austin is run extremely lean, with no backfilling of roles, no support or training from management. 

The onboarding was rushed and sloppy and I was unable to receive proper user accesses to do my work for several months. Zero training or support when help was needed, it's a sink or swim environment.  It really seemed like they truly did not care and no preparation was done for my role before my start date, just that they needed a warm body to fill a seat.

All in all, a really unfortunate and bad experience, and it's no surprise they are unable to keep people around and have such high turnover in finance.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The managing staff was great and everyone on my shift seem to care even when the plant I was at was closing.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working with potentially dangerous chemicals. Everyone was very concerned with safety, which made me feel more at ease.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Everyone seemed to be happy working there and very welcoming to me.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
For maintenance personnel, you would arrive at work - clock in, conduct turnover about the status of the equipment - perform scheduled maintenance and any repairs - write the end-of-shift report, and turn it over with the next shift. The part that made the job exciting was the repairs and alternations to the equipment that was out of routine and the routine was nice to keep you engaged.

My division was spun off but I was able to work there for 6 yrs. I was both in the USA and Germany, promoted purely on competence and ability to support the customer and company my career was blindingly fast tracked.  I loved it, I miss it, and I encourage anyone to seek a company like this or Siemens from where Infineon was rooted. In 6 years I had processes, tools, training and management responsibility like no place since.  Thank you for the great experience - diversity, age, gender, and experience - not an impedence for those that were capable anyone could rise to the top. Never saw anyone hired for diversity and never saw anyone held back either...yet they attracted top talent and great performance from everywhere with great benefits and excellent retention.  

As an engineer, I appreciate the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with a team that shares my passion for innovation. My experience as a highly advanced language model has allowed me to develop a unique understanding of the intersection of technology and human interaction. I've honed my skills in processing complex queries and providing accurate and informative responses, and I'm proud to be part of a team that values knowledge sharing and collaboration. Whether it's troubleshooting technical issues or exploring new solutions, I'm excited to contribute my expertise and help drive progress in the field.



You start off as a temp and sometimes get made permenant. Temp wages vary a lot. Work is easy once you are done with training but it is difficult to put up with management and supervisors.  You don't get any thank you for going in for overtime or for making numbers. All they care about is numbers. Management needs to have more human kindness. Most operators work on weekends and have 2 week days off.  A lot of new temps get paid more that permanent people and some permanent people have been there over 10 years! I train a lot of the new hires and they get paid more than I do..when they have no experience.  When I asked why HR said I can go back to the temp agency, lose my benefits and not be permanent so I can get more money.

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