Don't work here unless you are desperate - Test Engineer Wolfspeed Employee Review

- Most engineers I interacted with worked about 70 hours/week, including conference calls at 8PM - midnight, 3-7 days/week between. For many it is 24/7 job. - All training and learning is strongly discouraged - Quality is NOT a value at Cree. Most Cree products have huge quality issues and recalls and this is due to a very low presence of quality accountability throughout the entire production process. - Management does not have project management or people management training or skills. Most projects are started and never finished and many managers employ intimidation tactics to ‘get the job done’. The result is a very negative and counter-productive work environment. - Systematic high turnover rate. I presume Cree aims to keep employee cost low so instead of giving people raises they overwork them until the people quit and then hire a replacement for less money. - Zero accountability. Cree never fires or demotes anyone because they are already very short-staffed due to the high turnover rate. As a result, management has no accountability for under-performance or lack of competency and the result is a very ineffective group of people attempting to run the company. On a positive side, it doesn’t matter how much you screw up Cree will keep you. - The company is going downhill. They have been laying off a lot of employees, despite already being under-staffed, in attempt to quickly save money to appease stockholders. The underlying problem is that there is a declining interest in Cree products due to consistent quality issues, poor customer relations, and a loss of the competitive advantage Cree used to have.