Hi , any of you work or have experience working at Komag . Do you happy with condition , benefits , bonus/profit sharing and altitude by high level komagian(managers/supervisors) there .

It's very job place to earn money especially from the OT claim.

Komag also you know! Wah lau ler!

I submitted my resume to them during the Career Fair at Midvalley but too bad, they're not interested with me.

How many years you have been working now ?

How long you think?

To TS, some of the engineers are on-call and they're equipped with pagers in order to page you when there's a need.

What position are you applying?

hmmmmm... komag is making HDD components.... big supplier to Seagate if not mistaken. Right now anything related to seagate is a GOOD news, and i believe komag benefit much better than Jabil....

Komag is expanding..... in terms of building.

Do IT student stand a chance to join?

ex komag-ian here... u can make much money there.. but caution a simple mistake.. u r fired... 2 year n below working exp at there mean nothing to them....

So, Komag is Seagate's CM?

Well, from what I heard, Seagate is not doing that well. What is the GOOD news?

Normally only EE, mechanical and Material student stay a better chance to join Komag

Nope! Komag is Seagate supplier not CM. From where you heard Seagate is not doing well ? They just bought over Maxtor last year and is doing quite well nowaday.

Yup Seagate right now is the world top supplier for HDD...

I don't know. An insider told me.

Another brother-in-law of mine working in Seagate as Director, how come he never tell me ?

Then you brother-in-law is more accurate. Sorry ...

No need to say sorry! May be he didn't tell me. I will ask him when he is back for CNY next month

Komag make the aluminium/glass platters that go into the hard disk.
When times are good, they are generous a paymaster with good benefits.
Work culture-wise....
I think their use of pagers is excessive to the point of ridiculous.
I was there many years ago and left just before they hit bottom. If I had stayed on I probably would have been earning more than I do now, and too pampered/overpaid/underqualified to be fit for another job....
Komag is a great place to earn money, but I don't like the culture there... too *Malaysian*

Malaysian work culture? How would it be? Explain more ...

a bit defensive and negative....
at least that was how I felt it was a long time ago.
KOMG is a nasdaq listed company, but the CEO was M'sian....
One of the more hare-brained ideas I heard last time was that they wanted to venture into networking optical fibres or something like that...(for the record I do not know what became of that venture).
I remember that TH (the outgoing CEO) was influenced by the brand name Docomo, and wanted to create a subsidiary for his venture and call it...."Kokaho" (Hokkien for "even better").

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.

my Ex-manager is one of the senior IT manager. he said the increment is very good >20%. dunno true or not. but i believe him. He offered me to go over but the package not really attractive.

Kobe is not Komag's competitor la, they are Komag's aluminium substrate supplier.

So Komag by now doest exist anymore...hows working condition and situation in WD now?

pls tell more.

WD is retrenching right?

Does Komag still exist ?