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SkyWater Technology Foundry

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Very bad culture, specilly in SW location in Florida. - Process Development Engineer SkyWater Technology Foundry Employee Review

1.0
Dec 15, 2023
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Pros

The facility built by Osceola County in Kissimmee is actually nice, spacious, and clean.

Cons

Skywater technology has 2 locations: The headquarter is in MN called SWMN and the second location in Kissimmee Florida call SWFL (thanks to Osceola County). The SWFL work environment is bad. There is a low-level management made of 3 people with very poor management skills and 2 of them with low technical education for the position (former technicians). They call themselves leaders: I am not sure of what! The only one with good technical education is unfortunately the opposite to a polite, courteous, or good mannered, person. I do not have to say the adjective to describe this person. The true is they are in such positions by doing some serious bootlicking. They are protected and supported by SWFL site manager, HR and ultimately by the SWMN management. They have lost more 7 engineers and scientists, and 2 technicians y the last 2 years along. My advice is to stay away from this place unless you are desperate since this is a very corrupted placed. The culture here is backstabbing, bootlicking, where knowledge, talent and creativity is second to the company culture.

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5.0
Feb 24, 2026
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Pros

Manager was very helpful, attentive, and willing to teach

Cons

Company goes through many phases and changes, organization moves around

2.0
Apr 13, 2026
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Pros

Work was interesting for the most part. Had some good challenges. Co-workers were great and made some good friends. First couple levels of managers cared and were great.

Cons

Typical shortsighted company that talks about how difficult it was to have layoffs then goes ahead and brags about how we've had our best quarter yet. Upper management either is incompetent or doesn't care. Probably both. They reduced what was already terrible pto by a couple hours and made it more difficult for use to earn our fab performance bonuses. Benefits are mediocre. Pay is on the low end. My advice is get a job at any of the other semiconductor companies in Texas. They all pay better and have better benefits.

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