I've posted on this one before. I used to work at Samsung and it was the same kind of culture clash. I couldn't blame the Koreans though. Many of my American pe

I've posted on this one before. I used to work at Samsung and it was the same kind of culture clash. I couldn't blame the Koreans though. Many of my American peers were exactly what they were afraid of. Policies that frustrated me kept others on target. For better or worse, semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most top-down sorts of businesses that exists - and for very good reason. One mistake in this domain could cost 8 figures. You want people to follow orders 100% without any assumption or interpretation, unless it is their express job duty to question something or perform a certain type of analysis. American culture tends to not be so aligned with this shape of organization. Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese - perhaps more so. If you look at a career in semiconductors more like enlistment in the armed services, you might have a better time overall. It is definitely one of the last places on earth you will be allowed to try out your fancy new javascript frameworks or esoteric functional languages. But, it is one of the best places on earth to learn about fundamental troubleshooting principles and what "value-add" really means in one of the most difficult ways available.