JA Solar
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    74%
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    Work/Life balance
    3.3(61 ratings)
    Career development
    3.8(61 ratings)
    Benefits & perks
    3.6(61 ratings)
    Management
    3.2(61 ratings)
    Working environment
    3.6(61 ratings)
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    3.0
    Intern
    Mar 2023
    PenangLess than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Requires a lot of communication
    The good thingsEveryday is quite mundane as it involves the same actions to manufacture, which may appeal to some.
    The challengesLanguage barrier due to having Chinese Engineers and local/foreign workers. Able to speak Chinese is strongly recommended. Depending on the job, working times may rotate on an ocassional basis.
    1.0
    HR & admin
    Feb 2023
    Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    HR attitude cause a lot issued
    The good thingsfriendly colleague ,office environment
    The challengesHR supervisor attitude cause issued. make smaller issued become bigger. In supervisor role but Act like manager
    4.0
    Equipment technician
    Sep 2022
    Bayan Lepas Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    “I love being a technician because helping companies run efficient systems literally makes everyday life better for users.
    The good thingsRelax, enjoy, learn, work, money & good friend
    The challengesnot enough spare parts
    4.0
    Leader production operator
    Aug 2022
    5 to 6 years in the role, former employee
    Good environment at this company
    The good thingsHave a teamwork staff
    The challengesremuneration and salary adjustments by management
    5.0
    Engineer
    Aug 2022
    PenangLess than 1 year in the role, current employee
    Good work environment
    The good things-Easy to manage safety related things. -Most employee already know how to practice safety in workplace
    The challengesCommunication due to different language and country
    5.0
    Executive
    Apr 2022
    Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Fast growing & Team work company..
    The good thingsFast growing company.. good annual increment and bonus..
    The challengeshandle communication with different department. team work
    5.0
    Quality assurance
    Apr 2022
    Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    work in team work and team leader will guide you to do your job better
    The good thingsNot working in stressful workplace
    The challengesBecause the location Far from my home
    5.0
    Quality Senior Engineer
    Jan 2022
    PenangLess than 1 year in the role, current employee
    Good place for learning and self improvement
    The good thingsThe supervisor and manager are so motivated. They guided you well especially for the new beginner.
    The challengesCooperation with different departments.
    4.0
    Exevutive
    Sep 2021
    Bayan Lepas Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Good place for learning
    The good thingsGood benefits and bonus
    The challengesSystem need to be improved
    1.0
    Ex employee
    Sep 2021
    KedahLess than 1 year in the role, former employee
    Experience in JA solar
    The good thingsGood teamate and have clinic inside easy
    The challengesThis terrible management and micromanagement and cannot accept the Engineer idea
    5.0
    Engineer
    Aug 2021
    Bayan Lepas Penang5 to 6 years in the role, current employee
    Management skill with operator and how to handle production if not enough operator
    The good thingsCommunicate will all department and do arrangement to achieve target daily production kpi
    The challengesNo more time with family
    4.0
    QA engineer
    Aug 2021
    Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Good company to work in
    The good thingsExploring new environment
    The challengesLearning problem solving from issue
    4.0
    Technician
    Aug 2021
    Penang1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    New Experience for anyone who seeking employment
    The good thingsFriendly staff and employees, able to communicate with management with relative ease
    The challengesImprovement on first time worker tutorial and guides
    1.0
    Engineer
    Aug 2021
    Penang1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    out of unexpectation environment and management
    The good thingsover performance staff and does not have a direction, only focus on output and does not care about the employee
    The challengeschallenge is to do a lot of irrelated job, buy more insurance to cover you safety
    1 person found this helpful
    1.0
    Engineer
    Aug 2021
    Bayan Lepas Penang1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Bad Environment and management
    The good things-got some good technician - good ot rate and free parking
    The challenges-poor management - senior engineer is more knowledge and skillful than fab supervisor -normal working hour is not your real working hour - quite hard tolerance with another department -quite hard get guidelines from supervisor, need to self expose and solve problems.
    1 person found this helpful
    1.0
    Process engineer
    Aug 2021
    1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    TOXIC WORKING ENVIRONMENT
    The good things-OT rate is relatively satisfied and free car park. -Some technicians are quite nice, experienced and helpful.
    The challenges-Lack of guidance from superior/senior as almost all experienced employees left. -Different kpi and target/goal in different departments and thus good cooperation cannot be achieved. -Same problem repetitively occur due to old/second-hand machine problems and thus only temporary solution taken (NOT SOLVING PROBLEM AT ALL). -Normal working time is not the real case (24/7 system is expected from superior,EVEN AFTER U SLEPT) -Policies are not consistent and keep on changing in short period of time. -Safety awareness especially in this pandemic period is yet to be improved. -Lack of clear working scope as working items of engineer keep on expanding from time to time. -No personal desktop and office place given, only use shared desktop that is very LAGGGGGGGG (even sometimes CHAIR also need to shared) -TOOOOOO much expectation from superior and WORK LOAD is not reasonable (due to lack of manpower)
    2 people found this helpful
    4.0
    Production executive
    Aug 2021
    Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    good to learn, managerial skill, technical skill
    The good thingsflexible working environment
    The challengesmeet KPI and target set by HOD
    2.0
    Process engineer
    Aug 2021
    Bayan Lepas Penang1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Harsh Environment and Risk of Career Growth
    The good thingsGood allowance like overtime rate, meal and semi-flexible working time. Stable and High demand company business. Good bonus (0-4 months) depends on working effort that easily noticed by supervisor and manager. Promotion need to go thru good management review on KPI achievement.
    The challengesDeal with harsh environment with a lot of dangerous chemical ,no ergonomic chair if work on-site and no personal laptop, need to use own personal phone as to record personal data and communication tool (only send 2 email within 1 year). 24/7 working culture due to personal phone as working tool. Rushing of output 24 hours with limited manpower so engineer will worked as lead technician and troubleshooting machine as equipment engineer as another dept engineer won't help most of the time. Engineer if want to learned whole process of manufacturing, need to promote until supervisor level just can chance to find root cause of process or else only can follow supervisor leading to do testing on machine and follow instruction. Lack of machinery to do testing on quality of product, required to walk back and forth around 200meter every shift to ensure quality of product is fine that caused insufficient manpower issue. Sometimes if machine got problem, it required to walk 3-4 times by technician or engineer per shift and quality of product is affected. No guidance by supervisor regarding on personal annual kpi achievement, they prefer you work as hand-on solving problem than giving you chance to learn another process as poor management on career growth.
    3 people found this helpful
    4.0
    Process technician
    Aug 2021
    3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Good allowances and friendly team
    The good things1. Good allowances such as transport, Tol and Meal. 2. Good team members, fresh graduate are welcome to apply here. Senior will guide you. 3. Friendly boss.
    The challenges1. Not flexible shift pattern. 2. Face alots problem with other department especially from china boss. 3. Promotion salary just convert allowance into your basic salary.
    4.0
    IQA Section Asst. SV
    Jul 2021
    1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Good colleague relationship
    The good thingsInter department colleagues relationship are just awesome!
    The challengesChinese language is an added advantage.
    4.0
    Purchaser
    Jul 2021
    Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Good environment without politic
    The good thingsgood team member, can work together, willing help each other
    The challengesNeed to done task on time, especially for urgent part.
    5.0
    Executive
    Jun 2021
    5 to 6 years in the role, former employee
    Good working environment
    The good thingsEnjoy teamwork , bonus 4month 😍
    The challengesAchievement of kpi 💪🏻
    5.0
    Facilities technician
    Jun 2021
    Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    many thing can learn
    The good thingsyou will know each system use in all factory
    The challengesthe challenges is about the poor management
    4.0
    Process technician
    May 2021
    Many benefit and allowance.
    The good thingsThis company provide with many benefit and allowance such as meal and transportation, good working environment and suitable place for experiences growth and development.
    The challenges* Exposed to many chemical on production site. * Unpredicted defect and high workload.
    4.0
    Quality control
    Mar 2021
    1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Manage to do water dripping test, check weight loss, reflectivity, PT value, line width, margin, line to line and sheet resistance of solar cell.
    The good thingsGood teamwork, comfortable environment and quite good management
    The challengesSometime difficult to get cooperation from production operator.
    2 people found this helpful
    5.0
    Process engineer
    Mar 2021
    Penang3 to 4 years in the role, current employee
    Good salary and challenges
    The good thingsHigh ot rate, and have a team on problem solving
    The challengesMoving fast industry
    4.0
    Senior engineer
    Mar 2021
    1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Fast pace and dynamic working environment
    The good thingsContractual bonus and performance bonus
    The challengesDealing with other departments.
    5.0
    Process Technician
    Mar 2021
    Bayan Lepas Penang1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Nice Working Mate and environment
    The good thingsBenefits provided was good
    The challengesWorking with other department and superior.
    5.0
    Equipment engineer
    Mar 2021
    Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Good workint environment to learn
    The good thingsCan learn alot about solar automation. Lunch allowance. Senior to guide.
    The challengesNeed kept production yield good. And challenge to meet kpi and machine uptime.
    4.0
    Assistant supervisor
    Mar 2021
    A good environment and opportunity to developed.
    The good thingsWork within 6 months get twice of bonus. Consider boss willing to pay.
    The challengesQuite challenge for fresh graduate or no experience background. Need willing to learn n positive attitude.
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