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    4.2409 ratings in total
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    91%
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    88%
    Employees recommend this employer to friends
    Work/Life balance
    3.8(409 ratings)
    Career development
    3.9(409 ratings)
    Benefits & perks
    4.0(409 ratings)
    Management
    3.7(409 ratings)
    Working environment
    4.2(409 ratings)
    Diversity & equal opportunity
    3.6(9 ratings)
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    1.0
    Equipment Engineer
    Jul 2025
    Batu Kawan Penang1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    It is like being thrown into a jungle. You choose your way to survive. RARELY people help you. You are friends with other departments? Good, but that will change quickly during issues and meetings. There's no room to express creativity at all.
    The good thingsLearn everything the hard way. Very steep growth if you are resilient.
    The challengesEquipment/sustaining team is the FIRST to be blamed for anything that happened. I once spent whole day to investigate a case where I need to be full detective mode, see CCTV footage and everything. Back in my days here, there were 3-4 meetings daily. OFTEN times you are needed on weekends. My chinese manager (now ex-manager) joined a meeting during CHINESE NEW YEAR. The technician here has history of heart attack and exploding foot vein due to needing to stand for so long to solve critical issues. If you are under a super aggressive senior manager/director, you will have a very hard time here. Unless you have plenty experience in the area, maybe you will survive. Absolutely NO CHANCE for Equipment Maintenance/Sustaining engineers to join all those fun company activities and competitions. You will never have the time. If you are really keen on improving MTBA, reduce downtime and blablabla, you wont even feel like having lunch, because there is no time to do that.
    1 person found this helpful
    4.0
    Maintanance Equipment
    Apr 2024
    Batu Kawan Penang7 to 8 years in the role, current employee
    Proud and Satisfied
    The good thingsSupportive Team Members
    The challengesI'll accept challenges as a medium to grow
    5.0
    Technician
    Feb 2024
    Batu Kawan Penang
    Overall Good
    The good thingsWork culture is good
    The challengesAdaptations to workplace
    3.0
    Staff
    Jan 2024
    Batu Kawan Penang5 to 6 years in the role, former employee
    Good environment but be prepare to work "for" the management and do their job.
    The good thingsTypical MNC environment. Good salary package.
    The challengesExtremely limit work spaces for employees due to unplanned expansions. Management is pretty incompetent.
    5.0
    Junior software engineer
    Nov 2022
    Batu Kawan Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Anlayse the problem and develops a working solution
    The good thingsLearning new things each day. A good team with helping colleagues and a better environment to work on.
    The challengesLearning new things on daily basis is challenging and very limited time to complete certain jobs.
    2 people found this helpful
    5.0
    Staff Technician
    Oct 2022
    Batu Kawan Penang5 to 6 years in the role, current employee
    Great career growth can be gain from this work lab
    The good thingsAs a debug tech, can collaborate easily with FA Engineer and product engineer for gain more knowledge.
    The challengesDebug need to meet shipping on time and avoid aging within 3 days hold in debug then need to release.
    5.0
    QA
    Aug 2022
    Batu Kawan Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Communication is the key
    The good thingsCommunication, teamwork, foreign language
    The challengesOperator focus on output effects the quality of product
    5.0
    Assistant supervisor
    Jun 2022
    Batu Kawan Penang5 to 6 years in the role, former employee
    A great place to grow
    The good thingsAnnual bonuses Rewards Festival gifts
    The challengesNeed to work under pressure
    5.0
    Operator
    Jun 2022
    Nibong Tebal PenangLess than 1 year in the role, current employee
    I am multitasking while in work. I did really enjoy the environment.
    The good thingsAll the facilities are good in condition. The surroundings. The benefits itself plus the minimum salary they give.
    The challengesWorking shift are not suit to me. Yet, it is okay for others.
    5.0
    Senior technician
    Jan 2022
    Batu Kawan Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Nice place to work here
    The good things1. Good employee benefit 2. Nice environment 3. Claimable OT
    The challenges1. Slow paced 2. Not much to learn in term of technical skills
    1 person found this helpful
    4.0
    Technician
    Dec 2021
    Kepala Batas Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Western digital a good place to working
    The good thingsgood company and more benefit. It a good to work at this place for create new experience
    The challengesneed to learn more on tool and system related MES system .
    5.0
    Technologist Automation Engineering
    Aug 2021
    Batu Kawan Penang5 to 6 years in the role, current employee
    One of the best benefit company in Penang
    The good thingsWestern Digital really care of employee safety and healthy. Recently just provide the free vaccination program to protect employee from Covid-19
    The challengesAggressive time line to meet. Various of automation project on going, all engineer work very very hard to meet the timeline.
    5.0
    Equipment technician
    Mar 2021
    Batu Kawan Penang1 to 2 years in the role, former employee
    Great environment and excellent quality of product
    The good thingsHaving a grate working environment and benefits and perks to survive
    The challengesTo get more improve in this skill and develop career in the industry
    2.0
    HR
    Feb 2021
    Batu Kawan Penang1 to 2 years in the role, current employee
    Good company and facilities, very poor leadership
    The good thingsGood company and facilities,
    The challengesvery poor leadership, most are bosses that not walk the talk.
    1 person found this helpful
    5.0
    Manufacturing supervisor
    Jul 2015
    Bukit Minyak PenangLess than 1 year in the role, current employee
    1
    The good thingsGood working environment, enjoyable and friendly bosses.
    The challengesTo enhance the poka yoke and zero mistake.
    5 people found this helpful
    4.0
    Senior executive
    Jun 2015
    Batu Kawan PenangLess than 1 year in the role, current employee
    Working Here!!!
    The good thingsGood place to develop your skills in such fast pace. Recommend for fresh graduates to learn, acquire knowledge & experience.
    The challengesDue to fast pace, you might need to spend some extra hours to complete your job. Need fast thinking to complete tasks given.
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