Interviewer to applicant, where are your school grade transcripts, applicant, grades are racist. We don't have grades...we have certificates of attendance.
That’s what happens when companies went overseas and the previous staff got old
So an EE degree isn’t a dead-end pursuit after all.
“Right in the middle of a desert”
Hey, chips need silicon and there’s a lot of sand in that desert.
It's an odd work environment - quiet and VERY dry. The nosebleeds stop once your body adjusts.
Learned some pretty cool stuff about optics and lasers, though.
Prospective American workers are too busy trying to figure out which gender they are and obsessively checking to see if Donald Trump is under the bed. They’re useless for anything other than spray painting statues or spreading monkey pox.
The biggest problem right now is the lack of housing here in Phoenix.
“but now the company is considering hiring directly from Taiwan,”
Well, problem solved. Just do what the tech companies are doing and import. On the other hand I am sure they will have no problem finding their Chief Diversity Officers and filling the HR with “Studies” graduates. The unions can’t wait to dig their claws in to this factory.
With respect to the semiconductor manufacturing, the subject of this OP, I expect the technician roles to be dominated by life science and chemists. Manufacturing and QC dominated by EE and a smattering of chemists, ME and ChE. Maintenance and support by EE, computer engineering and ME and a few ChE. Engineering Department to be heavy on EE, computer specialists and ME plus a few ChE.
History, psychology and political science majors need not apply. Starbucks is down the road.
Well they aren’t very smart then. Trying to partner with the political morass of a state university that produces uneducated morons is not a winning strategy.
Intel has fallen behind TSMC . Apple’s M1 series of chips (manufactured by TSMC) are kicking butt and Intel has nothing like it and won’t for years.
“Kweilin Waller, deputy human services director at the Phoenix Business and Workforce Development Board, commented: “You say ‘semiconductor manufacturing’ [to potential recruits], people look at you like you have two heads. It’s just unfamiliar.”
Now thats just how well a job “educators” have done!!! Intel has been there for YEARS!
From India ?
“TSMC doesn’t have the history that Intel does with the university to attract such talent as easily.”
Has TSMC ever trained ANYBODY for a job?
Ever sought out partnerships with training organizations/schools?
Nah, just import the low-cost, VISA begging un-americans.
In Columbus, Ohio site of the second Intel Plant “Community Leaders” are demanding that Intel guarantee they will hire workers from the inter-city and the disadvantaged.
The first shovel of dirt hasn’t been turned and the race hustlers are already looking for a payoff.
It has been discovered that Arizona is California thirty years ago, and the great land rush is on. Problem won’t be lack of water but lack of ability to keep Democrats from rigging Arizona’s election system, the way they did in California after the shock recall of Gray Davis in 2002.
The Tampa Bay region of Florida would have been a better choice...
Yeah, but it's a "dry heat."