What is the salary like at TSMC?

-Stable job/company -50-75 percentile in compensation for this type of engineering role (slightly above average) -will sponsor visa -In my opinion, this is a political FAB so you will never have to face the same level of pressure of wafer throughput that mass production FAB's do in Taiwan and the tech will always be about at least 1-2yrs behind what Taiwan has (this makes life much easier as an engineer).

-every imaginable aspect of this job is a con except that the advanced tech is interesting and the job requirement puts you under immense pressure to improve as an engineer -if you don't get priced in well initially management/HR will not adjust your salary to be comparable to your peers regardless of performance -everyone leaves around 1~3yrs who does not require visa sponsorship leaving every department is understaffed and undertrained -you should not working here if you are a US citizen or have a green card already -they previously fired all US directors so you will never become a manager/director unless you are a fluent mandarin speaker -they cut bonuses at every opportunity even when making money hand over fist -big tech company without big tech pay or flexibility (good luck talking to your family, friends, etc when your phone is kept in a locker and you get worked like a dog) -huge portion of salary is based on performance rating for Taiwanese employees which creates a imbalanced and unfair dynamic for employees with the same job when it comes to effort and work load -terrible office politics with management who would "rather give budget for team dinner than give better pay or bonuses" (yes the head of HR literally said this to us in a retention related meeting for local hires XD) -all of the high salaries reported are from retention bonuses given to US hires who trained in Taiwan over 1yr ago and will not be given to anyone hired after (there are essentially 3 different compensation packages for people with the same job title are yours will be the lowest possible as a new hire) -you will not have any time or energy for anything but work -As a US hire you will likely never be given any opportunity to do critical work (you will be hired to fill quota so TSMC can say they made more jobs for the US and your main objective will be reduce the work load of your Taiwanese counterparts)

While the base salary is standard, the total package, including overtime pay and quarterly bonuses, is highly competitive within the industry.

The pace inside the cleanroom is extremely fast-paced, requiring long hours of standing or walking, which is physically and mentally demanding.

Good opportunity for a new career with decent starting pay.

Not enough staff to provide proper coverage for sick time and PTO, especially for Night Shift

Good benefits, good salary, no retirement age

Lots of work to do. Need good time management. Lots of old people. Younger ones need to work even harder.

Good pay compared to other Taiwanese factory

Extremely poor working culture. Not a good environment for talents

Definitely good pay and work culture is trying to get better in some departments

There is still no work life balance for full time employee. Also HR is horrible

Good benefits, decent pay, over time if you like it.

No quality check if tasks are distributed, and done thoroughly. Info is go from upper management to the end of the ladder, but no feedback from the end of the ladder and lack of support from the upper.

Great benefits, good pay, diverse environment

Poor communication, inconsistent expectations, Taiwanese obedience culture

Great industry leading silicon manufacturing and you can learn about all the reasons they are the best. Make products for Apple, AMD, Nvidia and everyone else needing chips. Great country leading pay for the assignees and good pay for the local US hires but comes with complete life sacrifice, challenge your sanity and balance of what is right. Tight like family community, think Band of Brothers or Platoon as that is what it is like and forces that kind of community, wink wink.

Absolute crazy hours and unmerciful and unreasonable daily request from your manager. The first line section managers are just the poor messengers trying to survive the unreasonable and unmerciful request from the department managers and directors and above. The higher up you go the more you find them numbed and brainwashed into accepting the TSMC way for success and money. Task are assigned and expected to be completed with no consideration of the cost or practicality. That is part of the secret of the success at huge human cost. HR has no control or ability to create or coach a better environment. Multiple HR directors have left because no real considerate and caring HR could accept the way Senior managers and higher ups talks and belittle their subordinates. Things in Taiwan were rough but at least attempts were made to train. Things now are such a mess and behind engineers and managers are told to do tasks they have no skill, background but must do. Moral and morale is terrible and almost everyone that can is leaving. Those tide down due to family, immigration find making the move harder and the assignees have the worst. Given visa can ‘t leave, can’t return early back to Taiwan without ruining their career. Reputation of the place is terrible in Taiwan and nobody there wants to come. It will be a disaster when the first wave of assignees all want to go home with no replacements wanting to come. Not sure how the company thinks they can hire more locals or promote enough to support Phase 2 forget Phase 3. People are leaving faster than they can be hired making more work for the poor people left here. I had no problem working hard, but with no chance of change, all the role model managers leaving gave me the obvious clarity of what I needed to do for health, life and sanity! If you are willing to work and work and work and do whatever you are told and do whatever it takes under high pressure with no tradeoffs this is the place rich in opportunity!

Good salary and benifits compared to other companies

Management doesnt care about you, and you will be worked to death