Fired from TSMC AZ after 2 weeks as an Equipment Tech (Acara Solutions). Heads up & AMA
I recently worked as a Diff Equipment Technician at TSMC AZ, contracted through Acara Solutions. The job was pitched as a 6-month trial period where they would teach you from 0 experience.
I was fired after just two weeks. The only explanation management gave was that I "was not learning at a fast enough rate." I highly doubt that was the actual issue, as I was ahead of all my e-learning deadlines and completing all assignments on time. I'm writing this as a heads-up because there are clearly unwritten rules and expectations that they want you to abide by, but won't communicate to you.
If you go through as a vendor or contractor, be prepared to be treated like a second-class citizen by everyone in the building while heading into the gown room.
Once you are actually inside the fab, people are hyper-focused on their work, so you are pretty much treated as an equal on the floor (excluding the restricted areas for secret operations, obviously).
Just wanted to put my experience out there for anyone looking at these contract roles. Ask me anything and I'm willing to answer.