engineering intern

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I got hired after a 9 hour interview consisting of meeting and presenting with 14 different people I was to work with. Once hired, I came to my first day to find out the group I was hired into and the position that I was hired for, no longer existed. My new boss and I were introduced on the same day we found our fates. 

There is a lot of attempted micromanaging from other people who don't know your processes, and a lot of engineers who very obviously do not respect New comers, or manufacturing personnel. It didnt help that I am a small woman, who graduated with my BS in Physics only a couple of years prior.  It didn't matter that I had over 6 years of intensive research experience because my group didn't interview me. 
You have to earn your respect, which I assume is typical, but be prepared. 

Maintenance is overwhelmed and there are too few people to know how to operate all their thousand + tools. They learned from me learning and setting up training with the vendors.  Their boss is aggressive and has no understanding or respect for the process or the hours and hours of time spent learning the tools, breaking down sw code for them to understand or physically training the r/m folks how the tools work. 

They value speed over quality, even though they swear on LEAN that they dont.  

Overall, once you have your footing most people will stop micromamaging or if they do, you will eventually have the credentials and respect and confidence to speak your mind frankly, which is overall better. 


They do not care about you. They (management) act like they do but all they really care about is production moves. They try to tell you they care about safety and quality but that is not true at all. I understand that at the end of the day, it's a business but the operators are also human. I've worked in a area where the head count is supposed to be 7, for 3 years I've had to work with 4 people in that area and make it work. We were always extremely understaffed and to save costs they would never open up OT for other shifts to come and help out.

It's kind of hard to move up in this place unless a position opens up. So if you want to become a lead or Process Tech, you literally have to wait until someone in that position steps down or leaves. If you want to learn or be trained on something, it all depends on your lead and supervisor and how well THEY think you can pick up on learning something. You get some say but all in all, the leads chooses the area and what you get to learn.

The people there are really nice but like other work places, it has it's drama and difficult coworkers. People do play favorites especially the Leads.

If for some reason you absolutely need to work at this place, I recommend working the N1 shift. You get Friday and every other Saturday off and you make 3% more than N2!! (It would always surprise the supervisors when they are going through a hiring spree and NO ONE is applying for N2, I wonder why... Work Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and every other Saturday and make Base + 15% or work Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and every other Saturday and make Base + 12%....... hmmmm???? WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD PREFER?)

•	Qualified new grind wheel vendor and reduced cost by $40k per month through orchestrating preliminary, split, lead and pilot runs on production wafers, translating data into coherent presentations and convincing the Engineering Review Board of the process change
•	Earned the internal Qorvo Applause Award for resolving a line-down excursion that caused over $100k loss of product by devising and implementing an in-line qual to prevent recurrence of such issue 
•	Trained operators and technicians on a factory-wide, real-time parameter monitoring software and achieved smooth transfer of knowledge between engineering and manufacturing so that small tool interruptions can be quickly diagnosed, fixed and returned to production
•	Spearheaded in qualifying and fingerprinting a new backside grinding platform and optimizing the tool’s throughput to 3x of the old platform, reducing the number of tools needed to meet factory ramp expectations
•	Replaced the guess-and-check cutting recipe on a tape lamination tool with accurate, calculated recipe parameters that perfectly delineates tape at wafer edge, thus reducing wafer breakage and eliminating a long-standing downstream vision system failure that previously scrapped $3k of material per month
•	Designed a surface roughness data collection system using a $2k table-top device and 3D-printed parts that outputs neatly-formatted data via Python script, achieving the same level of precision as a $500k metrology tool, as well as higher measurement throughput

Interesting stuff to learn in the beginning. After working there for 3 years, I had leaned that there was no room for advancement. Trying to prove yourself gets you know where in the company. Hard to sit in one area for too long before you're falling asleep. Jobs are very repetitive. Most of the machines are outdated and constantly needs repairs. Management is worthless. Some of the employees are more capable of managing the company. Hard to trust anyone because you never know who's gonna back stab you to try and get somewhere in the company. Management shows favoritism and the company is micro managed. You begin to wonder every morning if you're gonna get a write up for the day for something that was done wrong. No cell phones on the floor and no call outs within 30 days. It's mind blowing how the company even stays open for business. 
On the bright side, there was always fresh coffee made. That was the best part of my day!
I made some good friends there. A lot of us stuck together and it did feel like a small family mainly because we all complained about the same stuff. 
Everyone gets the title "assembly" no matter what position you work, unless you're a group leader or in repair. That keeps the pay nice and low. Most raises are every year max not to exceed .04% 
Great place to work if you're ok with low pay and the mind set of a dead end job.

Work Staff is top notch. Excellent Peer group to work with. Most mid Managers, good but management does vary greatly with regard to company standards as the company "standard" is left to individual managers. Hence, no Standard.  A lot of inconstant work environments as far as days in office vs. work from home.  Seems to be building employee resentment in some divisions.  Upper management seems out of touch with employee concerns.   Multiple employee exits have occurred in various groups & HR informed of concerns yet, no changes implemented to address issues.  No confidential forum for honest, company improvement suggestions.  Employees fear reprisal by management for honest concerns for company.  General  support and pride in company dropping over past few years.

Prepared the parts for cleaning process that sometimes involved chemicals; baked the parts in a oven at specified temperature depending on the specifications for testing with the various machines which include but are not limited to NT16,NX16,M32 and VTECH machine. Read and input the data in our computer system for the engineers. If the machine was damaged in parts or not working he would have to troubleshoot and repair the problem, then depending on the parts that were running he did have to change the computer program and even change adjustments/parts to the machine for the specification of the project. After testing parts he inspected parts with a microscope for any damages and then he prepared them for shipping. When handling the parts had to be aware of the static and had to were electrostatic bracelets since the parts were very sensitive to static. All this work was to be done in a clean room environment. Used Allen wrenches, computers, precision measurement hand tools, screwdriver, pliers and special specification pound adjustment tools. Process and machine trouble-shooting, problem-solving, machine maintenance and proficient use of diagnostic and statistical skills.

Qorvo has cutting edge IC designs and R&D. They really do build cool products that power a lot of awesome technology we use every day. However Qorvo builds these products like it's the 1990s. They are way behind the times internally and things can move slowly. If you're someone who likes to push forward and be utilizing best practices this isn't the place to do that.

Qorvo in my experience has a healthy work/life balance and gives generous PTO time. Management and coworkers have always been generally pleasant and easy to work with.

Exempting IC/RF designers I would not rate Qorvo as a place for career advancement or to get experience with best in class tools / processes for your job. This place has historical roots in defense industry and you can feel it. Slow moving, resistant to change, consistently uses old processes and tools. If you are new graduate to less than 10 years experience I would avoid this place unless you are RF design or applications engineer. 

Overall it's not a bad place to work but you may end up bored or frustrated more often than you'd like unless your in a few specific positions.

Benefits
Company is very willing to work with school schedules.  Good benefits: medical, dental, life & 4 weeks paid time off, 4 flex holidays, school tuition reimbursement, 401k & company matching.  

Coworkers
Have some close friendships with fellow coworkers.  Shifts seem to be at odds with each other and tend to be eager at finding mistakes of other shifts. Work was difficult at the beginning, but became quite easy after getting the hang of it.  

Management
Some micromanaging but is lenient in other ways such as taking breaks, group meetings, asking for time off, encouraging training.  Tardiness is mainly docked against the off-shift workers but not against the 1st shift workers.  Racial diversity is seen in the regular workers, but not in management.

Work Environment
Very talented, gifted, and friendly people.  Testing is ambiguous and at times confusing due to multiple engineers and managers using different terminology and nomenclatures in the instructions.

TE's and PE's are treated like floor techs and expected to work floor hours without floor pay/overtime. 
You will be doing tech work on the floor everyday before you can actually do any dev/eng work. This is really a semantics issue, but even Senior Engineers fill the same role as technicians at other companies.

The corporate culture refuses to innovate and simply follows trends set by industry leaders. They took away PTO with no payout, took away WFH with no compensation, and worsened the retirement plans last year. So know that the benefits you think you are signing on for  WILL be changed within a year or two... for the worse.

If you enjoy floor work and working with hardware you will find the job interesting.

Management is not qualified to be in the position of management.  They pretend to care about you as a person, but really they don't.  Human Resources is bi-partisan, they don't really listen to you if you have a complaint, they take sides and show favortism and your just another thorn in their side if you speak out.  Working conditions are very stressful, you feel as if your being watched or monitored constantly.  If you have a issue with a employee that is on management's favorite list, don't dare complain because it will just open the exit door for you.  If they offer you a severance package and you don't accept it, they will just terminate you on the spot, treat you terribly and have you escorted off property.  Over all it's the worst place I ever worked.

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