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I had the incredible opportunity to work as a Program Manager at Sanmina Corporation, and my experience with the company has been nothing short of exceptional. Throughout my tenure, I was consistently impressed by the organization's commitment to excellence, innovation, and employee growth.

From day one, I was welcomed into a collaborative and supportive environment that fostered both personal and professional development. The management team demonstrated a genuine interest in their employees' well-being and career advancement, providing regular feedback and guidance that helped me excel in my role. The company's dedication to cultivating leadership skills and offering advancement opportunities was truly inspiring.

One of the standout aspects of my time at Sanmina was the emphasis on innovation. The company is at the forefront of technological advancements in the industry, which not only kept the work exciting and challenging but also gave me a sense of pride to be part of a team that's shaping the future. The cross-functional collaboration within various departments further highlighted Sanmina's commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions to clients.

The work-life balance at Sanmina is another aspect that deserves praise. As a Program Manager, I often found myself juggling multiple responsibilities, yet the company always encouraged a healthy balance between work and personal life. This not only contributed to my job satisfaction but also allowed me to perform at my best.

Furthermore, the company's dedication to social responsibility and sustainability initiatives resonated deeply with me. Seeing how Sanmina integrates ethical practices into its business strategies underscored its commitment to making a positive impact on both the industry and the world at large.

In conclusion, my time as a Program Manager at Sanmina Corporation was enriching and fulfilling. The supportive work environment, emphasis on innovation, commitment to employee growth, and ethical business practices make Sanmina an outstanding company to be a part of. I'm truly grateful for the experiences and lessons I gained during my tenure and would highly recommend Sanmina to anyone seeking a rewarding and challenging career in program management.

Thank you, Sanmina, for a remarkable journey!

The total lack of respect from management is beyond a disgrace. You will be called DUMB and talk to and about to other co workers like your trash. The benefits are horrible, pay is pathetic. The entire job could be done remotely but instead they put you in cubicles smaller than my dogs, dog house. No flexibility at all. If you miss work you are shamed and treated horrible. If you're not friends with management or brown nose then this is not the place for you! If you want a job to grow and be treated with respect this is not the place for you! They do not supply you with the basic tools required to do your job, updated computers, monitors (you get a tiny monitor, wore out at that), they will not spend a dime on the necessities needed to succeed at your job. Instead your required to use a laptop that barely runs, freezes up 60 percent of the day, then you get yelled at for not being able to supply timely reports. It is a set up for failure. I have seen 3 co workers have nervous break downs and a few others who are barely hanging on solely because they are the sole income for their families and seem to have no choice but to stay. Or in reality they have been beaten down to the point they truly believe they are as dumb as they are told by the ones who are suppose to be giving guidance and setting examples. If you speak to other co workers with a simple chat, you are belittled in front of everyone to shut up and get back to work, yet the same Leader will chat all day with friends (co workers) about personal issues, yet that's okay. I have been a victim and a witness to nothing but bullying and harassment in front of everyone in the office area, by my Director and manager on a daily basis. I have never worked in a place so evil, and yet Sanmina HR and Executives allow it. They are very aware of the issues but only care about making the greedy dollar. Most negative, hateful atmosphere, working you like a dog for pathetic pay and benefits.. while the Directors and Executive team have the best tools to work with, travel, living their best life off others misery they cause.

Interesting place to work at least to say. Most of operators and workers are stuck in this "whatever" culture almost I don't care. Reason for this can be found in low pay and 10 years no raise and no recognition at all for anybody. So work hard and care is same as perform at minimum requirements and get by. How ever there is group of employees and low level management who really cares about production but any success or progress they made is quickly swept by upper management to show of to their bosses. More care is taken to keep facility main isle shinny for show then keep machinery and equipment in decent shape. If you look deeper you will see lack of ownership. One of customer comments are "Wannabe manufacturing"     
How ever life for salary employees, if you disregard low pay, can be very easy because of total lack of supervision. Lunch could be 30 min or 2 hrs. Come late leave early nobody cares. 
Only training workers receive in my time was ESD training. No safety training's of any kind. Lack of basic safety knowledge is wide spreed. Safety violations are everywhere. 
Most employees are clueless about lean manufacturing. Any attempt  to implement idea of lean manufacturing quickly disappears because of upper management lack of interest. Any good input from low level people falls on def-ears. 
Floor is disorganized. Frequently equipment is moved around for hard to understand reasons or just because it was done in some other Sanmina plants. 
And so on and on!
I come from highly organised place and this all was clearly visible to me but obviously to many customers who are leaving one after another.
To upper management main focus is on trying to present good numbers by hiring low wages people and deep cuts to basic production needs. Things like quality, customer satisfaction, on time delivery, lean manufacturing, safety are way down on priority list.

I am not a review writing type. I was recently approached by someone who was considering working for Sanmina. He recommended that I write a review so others can be cautioned. 

I worked for a division then called Newisys (was acquired by Sanmina and integrated into Sanmina years ago). I believe this is now called Viking services. This was known as the enterprise storage and compute division of Sanmina. This is a terrible place to work for outside of work/life balance which was good. The management here is the worst I have seen in my career. They lied to me at the time of my recruitment in terms of their profitability, their product and financial outlook, market acceptance, and internal culture and issues. This company had not handed out a bonus for years. And people were leaving as soon as the economy improved and there were better jobs outside in Colorado. People were leaving at regular intervals, putting enormous strain on the people who stayed since there were no backfills for the people who left. This division was led poorly and had lost money entire time it was part of Sanmina. This division is managed by some of the worst management I have seen in my career. That is not a hyperbole or exaggeration. And the financial results and the fact that people were leaving in droves can easily be attributed to this bad management, despite a reasonably capable workforce. 

If a recruiter from this company calls you claiming all kinds of rosy outlook for this division (or for that matter the whole company) please run the other way, if you have a choice. The recruiter openly lied to me along with senior management. These are professional liars.

A typical day at work here consisted of jumping immediately into overdrive as I had to first go through the process of doing an inventory of used drills and had to physically open each box of drills to verify the counts and make sure the proper size drills were put into the right casings and make out the purchase orders to be turned into purchasing. Then I had to quickly tear down the used drill kits, throw out the last used drills, save the reusable ones in their respective casings and set these drills aside for the next days inventory. I also had to build up new drill kits to be used immediately out on the drilling floor. I also learned that it didn't pay to allow myself to become overwhelmed, because being one person, I did all I was physically capable of doing and I gave it my all. Management was so-so at this place. I was most often having to hunt down my manager to get him to sign the purchase orders before I could turn them into purchasing and I was under the pressure of having to have them turned in by a certain time and no later. They made people permanent that were falling asleep on the job and I found this to be extremely disturbing as I was told numerous times that their intentions were to make me a permanent employee but I was kept at a temporary contract status. They had some people working at the temporary status for up to 2 years before letting them go. I loved working with the people there and found my job enjoyable in that regard. The hardest part of my job was knowing I was doing my best and being told by management that they were going to hire me but not seeing it happen. The most enjoyable part of my job was that I was able to meet the physical demands of supplying drills for all 3 work shifts.

Before I started at Sanmina-SCI I did not know much about electronics manufacturing. I took the job to supplement my electronics manufacturing class during the summer. I worked a 12 hour shift Friday though Sunday using bed of nails testing to check that circuit boards worked before final assembly. My typical day involved acquiring necessary paperwork for any circuit boards I planned to test after I found out which boards final assembly would need after my section and would make a priority list ordered to finish all needed boards as quickly as possible. My section had a large work in progress shelf with little specification on FIFO or other schedule to test parts, so I chose parts by nearest due date for that day, then when everything that was needed was finished I switched to shortest process time in order to finish as many boards as possible. I usually finished the backlog of parts from the weekday by sunday morning when I could then work at the speed of the line or would move to another line and help until enough work built up back at my station. The work environment was calm on the weekend shift and everyone was very helpful when I had questions. Management always tried to answers my questions, but more could have been done to let me know what parts were needed each day. Hardest part of the job was the heavy lifting to move the testing devices from storage to the computer. Some testing devices weighed up to 80 pounds. Most enjoyable part of the job was learning how everything was made, and using lean tools from class to improve my process time at my specific station.

I was excited to work for Sanmina at first but quickly realized that this is not a company I wanted to work for, and I honestly don't like having their name on my resume. Many time I have had hiring managers in interviews say negative things about them which puts me in an a awkward situation trying not to agree.  

If you take a job there WATCH YOUR BACK because your managers will throw you under the bus the first chance they get. The culture is eat or be eaten. During my time here I have seen many people get let go for things they where not involved in. 

One my coworkers told her subordinate that it was ok for them to work remotely occasionally in-front of me. One day her subordinate was fired and I just learned it was because he was following the instructions of his manager. The sucky thing is she was the one who conducted the investigation against him after HR said something, and just let this kid get fired for time fraud (Which he did not do) and permanently tarnished his reputation because she it a terrible person. She would of gotten a slap on the wrist most likely but he was fired. This is the company culture in a nut shell. 

If you want to see how poorly the employees are treated just look up the lawsuits brought against Sanmina from the current and past employees, there is a staggering amount.

Do yourself and your career a favor and wait for the next opportunity

basically I have only been getting two ten minute breaks each day working at Sanmina. I would very much enjoy having more time on breaks to eat and use the rest room if needed. I work 2nd shift but I would take a first shift job over second shift. I like being able to move around on the job rather than standing in one spot all day but I will take what I can get. A day at work for me would be, taking over the machine I was assigned to by checking the paper on the board. Then getting the turn over from the previous operator and checking all fluids used in running the press and filling them up if needed. Logging into the job on a computer, then filling out necessary paper work and doing any safety checks needed. I then brake off necessary tabs and trim the parts coming off the belt. I then inspect parts and if there good with no defects they are then packed in a basket, tout, boxes stacked on a pallet or stacked on a pallet using ply wood for layers. If the parts were to be bad they are thrown in a hopper with all excess aluminum to be re melted. If the press were to go down I then restart the press if I ran into any trouble I would then find a set up to help get the press up and running. At the end of our shift I will fill out necessary tags for the basket of parts and give a turn over to the next operator.

Every morning that the operator gets to the machine sometimes the operator has to finish the job that the previous shift didn't or couldn't finish. Sometimes operators don't like to work on hard jobs, and the easy way for them  to continue working so they can do the quantity required they just leave it for the next shift, without their leads concern, the when the supervisor gets to walk around and check that every lot numbers was running on time, and whenever she saw a lot number that was behind she would get mad at my shift, and even if we told her that the grave yard was the one that left it she would still scream and pressure us, and she never asked or try to figure out what was the problem. She just wanted that job out of the department. So I leaned how to finish my job no matter how hard or easy it was, so that way no one would had to have hard times, and also the time I waste on finishing that job, some one else could do more jobs. And at the end of the day everything is running on time and the other shift won't have to be stuck with that job. And the hardest part of finishing the hard job, is trying to figure out the problem, then solving it, as well as finishing it on time. The most enjoyable part is that almost any one that I asked for help was willing to help, and we al stick together until that specific job was dome.

Work with Sanmina plants in US, Canada and Brazil with all critical issue to ensure that they do not go line down and are able to make revenue for the quarters. I've learned patience, the reward of hard work, ability to negotiate with suppliers on critical issues as well as how to escalate to Directors and/or VP level with major companies such as Samsung and Texas Instruction. I enjoy the challenge and the feeling when I succeed. My job is extremely challenging but rewarding at the same time. I enjoy working with my coworkers, very nice being able to discuss issues with them and see how they would handle them for resolution. The most enjoyable part of my job is when I help my plants with keeping the lines running and seeing what may contribution to this has done with helping them. My management pushes us extremely hard to succeed with all issues we are working for our plants and we keep around a 94% success rate. As a team lead I require little or no supervision and enjoy spending time helping my coworker with their issues and seeing them succeed.

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