[wormlord]

Samsung is the only job interview I have walked out of. I was told "you'll basically have zero wlb for the first 2-3 years while we are getting this fab off the ground". I immediately said I was withdrawing my candidacy. I can't imagine what the floor workers jobs are like if that's how demanding the SWE side is.

It's especially soul-crushing when you think what the next Xnm process translates to in the real-world. Incrementally better performance for encoding cat videos or whatever. No thanks.

[bluedino]

wlb?

[knoebber]

I assume 'work life balance'

[esalman]

Work-life balance.

[wdh505]

Work life balance

[stevage]

wlb?

[mettamage]

work life balance

[Alupis]

> "you'll basically have zero wlb for the first 2-3 years while we are getting this fab off the ground"

This doesn't sound like you were interviewing for a typical job with Samsung then. Getting a fab off the ground seems to imply it's a newly constructed, or under construction fab. You were interviewing to be part of the crew that builds and sets up a new fab.

There's a reason salaries for this type of work as so large...

[justinclift]

> There's a reason salaries for this type of work as so large...

That's not the reputation that salaries of places like this have.

[Alupis]

In the US?

[wormlord]

That's fair enough. The salary was not high though lol.

[Alupis]

I'm just curious - was this a US based fab as part of the CHIPS Act fallout, or a fab in Korea? I would assume salaries are localized to COL.

[wormlord]

USA