Get the work experience, then run - Facilities Engineer TSMC Employee Review

1.0
17 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Starting pay decent for newly graduated engineers. Ok benefits.

Cons

Company seeks best candidates from universities for engineer roles (above 3.5GPA), yet pays them low and overworks them. Head hunter culture. Management known to blame new engineers for plant issues that have existed years before they even started with the company. Being on call, there were many times you are expected to respond to emergencies in the middle of the night on site (no compensation for this). Pay raises small compared with COLA. Promotions range from difficult to impossible for Americans. Company known to bring in workers from Taiwan to spy on American employees and report back to headquarters. Upper management tends to play favorites with Taiwanese workers. Have seen management unfairly discriminate American engineers, while favoring and assisting Taiwanese engineers in the same position (I experienced this myself). Working hard and putting the extra time in to learn as much as possible will not be acknowledged and compensated if your boss doesn’t like you.

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TSMC Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We do not tolerate discrimination in our workplace, and we take allegations such as these very seriously. We strive to be a place where all employees feel valued, included, and able to openly share concerns. We invite you to reach out to tsmchr@tsmc.com to share more details so that we can have a better understanding of your employee experience.

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Cons

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