Good to know that. If the CEO is Malaysian, he will manage it Malaysian way

Heard that Quantum is back? Are they going to be in HDD business? Battle among the giants? Seagate, WD, Samsung, Hitachi?

Any source of the news ?

No source but got a thread on Quantum on this section. The TS is also sort of MIA.

No source! How to confirm the news ler!

That's why I'm asking ... I'm just following a hunch!

Speculation ?

My cousin told me Komag just bought up the whole stretch of the companies there getting ready to expand..

Not sure how true this is.. he even asked me to give him my resume, wanna help me submit application

I heard too. Not sure why they're coming back to Penang again! Any idea ?

I thought all the while they're in Penang! They're doing expansion of the existing business operation.

Komag used to retrench their employees a few years ago. I thought they're moving out from Malaysia until recently they started to expand their plant again. Same case goes to their neighbour AMD

Wow ... seems like most of the companies are expanding their operations in Malaysia. I'm wondering what're the attraction waves ...

I heard some country like China got quality issue. For example Seagate moved some of their operation to China and they found out the quality is very bad. That's why my brot-in-law who in charge of quality dept need to travel to China quite frequent

Well, China, India and Vietnam will be in the eyes of investors in the coming years when proper standards and regulations have been established in those countries.

I tot recently almost all electronic companies in penang already cut down on OT wat ? jabil, intel, AMD and also komag all also same ....only those sub con companies like ASE and globetronics have OT kau kau for now ...this is due to reasons like nowday's major companies are outsourcing most but not all their products and equipment operation to those OEM companies...

komag was the place known for OT where u can be known as OT king if u rajin , till now which I heard no more OT leadi all cut down...

those were the days when or if u worked at komag and refused to do OT, u can even kena warning letter for not commiting to OT, hahahaha...

wat I know is that komag is making disk drives for HDD and their other direct competitor is kobe , I think as long ppl are using mechanical based HDDs then they still have bisness laa .....once the market for solid state RAM based HDDs pick up, they will and might be in trouble....

Talking about OT. Just heard it today. One of my friend said that OTM in Dell is different. If you OT a lot, meaning your job performance is not good! So in order to have a better job performance (meaning better increment and etc), you shouldn't have OT a lot! This doesn't make a good sense!

Not really lah! My friend work for 6 months and OT almost every day got her prorated increment of 5%. Not a bad number

At least your friend got pro-rated increment. Some new hires are not entitled for this pro-rated increment.

The CEO now is Tim Harris ex- Seagate.

got point systems also for shift worker.... not come to built-in OT ur point will deducts.


Ohh ya got few position for engineers at komag... who qualified try to apply lor.


This post has been edited by shift: Mar 31 2007, 11:05 PM

Wah ... point system somemore.