Company: IBM
Date: 2015-04-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

300mm Semiconductor engineer
Pros: IBM has the culture and the people that allowed SIGNIFICANT advanced to semiconductor IC technology over the years to the point we are now (2015) manufacturing the most sophisticated high performance ICs ever made by mankind.
Cons: IBM's ICs are so high end and so expensive that IBM priced itself out of the OEM market.  IBM Microelectronics' main customer, IBM server group (mid and high end servers) sells only thousands of units, not  the millions of units of game consoles, for example, that are sold.  The resultant money pit that IBM Microelectronic became led to persistent layoffs or threats of layoffs that has decimated the populated of IBM's 300mm fab.