SWOT Analysis
Did a SWOT analysis (a tool for auditing an organization and its environment) for you.

Tech to Infinion

strengths,

Better pay. More stability than Infinion.

weaknesses,

More politics.

opportunities,

You can move on to lots of roles from quality deparment. Hugh potential to grow.

threats

If semiconductor moves to China, it is a threat(or opportunity)


Infinion to Tech

strengths,

You can use your technical interest better. VLSI Design is a top-notch job.

weaknesses,

Small exposure to business

opportunities,

You can specialize to becomes a know-how in IC design

threats

Infinion had lots of changes. (German does not thing Semiconductor is in its pie, so Infinion was spinned off from Siemens AG, and recently, it dropped another spin-off to be called Qimonda, being an Asia company.) I think you can learn lots of politics in Infinion too.

I am interested to know more about the politics in Infinion, too. Who knows it, please?

谢谢。我还听到很多senior说
新加坡并没有真正的R&D,而是Design and Development。所以他们也不看好infineon。

The board of Infinion is actually having a lot of troubles identifying the futur
They set up a ulta-modern buildling in Kallang to be their Asia-Pac head.

But will it continue its germany root, or be Asianized?

If it continues its german root, Central R&D will be in Germany. And your chance of getting helo in organization is extremely limited.

If it wants to be Asian, heheh, you know all these Asian stuff, nothing is for sure. Accept and Nod whatever bullshit the big boss says.

Yeah, you need to know which product are you going to handle?
The memory part will become Qimonda soon in June.

If you are doing the automotive or Industrial part, you remain to be an infinion employee.

Design Engineer for DSP and communication SoC development
应该不是和memory有关得。
这个position指明了要fresh gradtraining是一定有的，但是也怕是廉价劳动力。毕竟tech的薪水让我心动的厉害。：p

It is good for a fresh Grad to apply a position specifying fresh Grad welcomed
That usually comes with a better series training and coaching.

It also gives you a lower expectation at the start, and gives some room to make mistakes. Your boss will pay some attention to develop you, rather than using you to make results immediately.

Those come-and-run positions may not be good for you in long term without the valuable learning/adapting period.

真想知道您是哪位EEE的牛人?IC design option的么?
说实话，我并不喜欢tech 的工作环境...

另外，如果这么在意做R&D,如果真的喜欢R&D, 为什么不做 Ph.D呢?

很想认识您...!

英飞凌可能比较不错
基本上看你的介绍应该是EE的，而且可能是VLSI lab的。 半导体fab的SPC基本上是运用一些统计学的methodology去监控和检测制程的稳定性。如果EE，特别是IC design背景去这个部门的话，EE的东西就用不到了。 Tech应该月薪4000以上不是问题，如果平时愿意加加班的话，应该更多。看看Tech的停车场，就可以知道待遇不错，很多新人进公司两三年就买车了。 在Tech做的话，你必须考虑在30岁左右的瓶颈问题。基本上，如果这时候你一直做下去的话，可能再往后转型就比较难了；可是不转的话，一直做SPC可能你会觉得比较无聊。Tech平时工作压力应该比英飞凌大，比较demanding。 当然如果你比较喜欢稳定舒适的生活的话，也许也是一个不错的选择。 英飞凌起薪应该属于一般的市场的薪水范围。但是VLSI design的将来的职业发展没有什么限制。可以做一两年觉得有兴趣的话，读个master或phd，然后继续走技术性的生涯规划。要是觉得对技术没什么兴趣的话，也可以做几年到FAB跟design house接口的部门做customer engineer,或是在design house做跟fab接轨的部门。 基本上，做过design house的跳到Fab基本问题不大，但是做SPC跳到design house或是其他跟EE有关的技术性工作就比较困难了。 大体来说，前5年是在Tech做Fab高；但5年以后有5年design house经验的薪水很可能超过fab。