engineer

senior technician

senior accountant

senior account manager

manufacturing technician

PHOTRONICS INC

Got laid off due to COVID, along with numerous other employees, but there wasn’t a single day when I didn’t like being there. 

-Coworkers were super fun to be with, my trainer especially, and I got along very well with everyone else there. 

-Breaks were nice, plenty of time to relax after times between the shift. 

-Pay was pretty good considering I just got out of college and was just training, and the job was relatively easy for me. Benefits given were probably the best I could ever get anywhere, and they offered a lot. 

-HR and front desk were some of the nicest people you will meet, never had any issue with them and were always patient and helpful whenever I needed it. 

Only complaint I would say is that I got laid off without an expected date I can rejoin the team, but I wouldn’t really be surprised since I was very new there, and I wasn’t the only one affected by it. 

This was once a great place to work. My take away is that people you work for make all the difference. Very much McJob. Unfortunately, once you lose faith and trust in a company it is hard to regain it. People can only be jerked around so much before they become bitter. 

There are no promotions. You just add additional responsibilities until you know longer are capable of doing any of them.  Because of revolving leadership and geographical distance, you never have someone who can understand  how to help you. Local leadership has one idea and remote has another.  You just have to decide who to disappoint and  you will get thrown under the bus by one or the other. There is no training, and that makes it difficult for new people. 

Workplace is toxic.  Supervisors have absolutely no management skills and are mostly absent from or instigating workplace issues that cause drama.  There is no leader amongst them.  No training program.  People who don’t know how to train are training new hires.  Establish employees avoid work while putting most of the work they don’t want to do on new hires. I would almost go as far as to say the existing employees sabotage new hires to keep the company in a bind.   Employees are burnt out, bitter, and negative.  Starting pay isn’t enough.  There is no overtime for working 12hr shifts.  You have to work extra days cause they are always short staffed at base pay.  Get the picture?

a typical day at work would be taking care of manufacturing issue 1st working with manufacturing and engineering to maintain and develop current process

Management  was fair and very helpful in many ways of performing my duties
 
My co-works where a great group of people that took direction and gave ideas on better ways of performing some of the process and flows

hardest part of my job was sometimes having to deal with old and outdate equipment that had to be pushed to specs they where almost unable to reach
  
Most enjoyable part of the job was that I really like and respected the people I worked with

A typical day was planning and executing the production runs for the customer demand.  Communication and understanding are the keys to this position. Management was supportive and informed and ready to help at any given time.  Co-workers were loyal and hard working and very in depth on the spec. of the product run.  Hardest part of the job was making sure all areas were in sync and a backup plan if something did not fall into place.  The most enjoyable was satisfaction and completion of a quality product.

Very few opportunities for advancement. Very high turnover rate because no one wants to stay in an environment where there is no advancement, while you are micromanaged and unappreciated. There are too many managers for managers while the techs are way understaffed, which has been going on for years. This used to be a good company to work for until they brought in new management that wants to recreate the wheel to line their own pockets with high salaries, instead of taking care of the loyal employees they have.

Don't pay great, but for the braindead work you'll be doing, it matches. Don't expect any meaningful payraise or promotion unless you've worked there for 10-20 years. Knew a guy who didn't become a manager until 20 years in. Your coworkers will all be older men who've been there for decades and are still doing the same jobs they were hired to do.

Photronics is a small company that produces photo mask. Photo mask are not used as widely in semi-conductors as it was in the early production stages of electronics. The metrics of semi-conductors such as IC (Intergrated Circuits) chips are getting smaller as new ideas and the demand of more memory on a smaller scale is needed.

I worked there for 20 plus years. When I first started there its was a good company. But it just slowly went down hill. Management is horrible they dont care about you and will throw you under the bus the first chance they get. And I got lay-off and they gave only 2 weeks of severance. This company is a joke I would fine something else if you could.

Work load varies depending on customer needs. Enjoy the job and communicating with customers. 
Job work/life balance -work Monday-Friday but do not like the hours of 3:30pm-12am.
Job security yes advancement no.
Management not the best.
Job culture not very diverse.
Overall rating 2
No pay raise in 8 years.

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