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Nice Place to Work, but Very Unstable - Senior Applications Engineer FSI International Employee Review

3.0
Mar 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

This company had interesting work, nice people, professional environment, and a pleasant atmosphere. It was very family friendly and for the most part, people worked 40 hour weeks.

Cons

The company never seemed to do as well as they projected. The semi-conductor field is very cyclic and FSI seemed to not do as well in the good times and do worse in the bad times than the industry as a whole. There were lots of rounds of layoffs. Upper management was not local, which led to some hard feelings.

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5.0
Dec 17, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good work/life balance Relatively low stress Interesting technology Good technical talent pool

Cons

Concerns about long term viability in such a competitive industry. Many of their competitors use cheap labor (India, Vietnam, China, H1 visas) and are willing to push employees to the breaking point.

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3.0
Aug 22, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Majority of production staff are easy to get along with and will help out as needed. Decent schedule. Great 2nd shift production manager

Cons

The most important thing for this company is the almighty dollar. Upper management is more interested in profits than of spending the appropriate amount of money to develop excellent tools. They want you to volunteer to help with field work, but you have to pay for all travel expenses and then submit a bill for reimbursement. Who's got that kind of credit line sitting around when you are working and having to pay bills for a family. No thanks!

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