Current and former employees describe the work environment at TSMC's Arizona facility as intensely stressful with a poor work-life balance, especially for equipment engineers in the WET module.

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        "excerpt": "I really don’t want to scare you but it’s truly and thoroughly awful. I used to be in a wet module and I lost fucking sleep.\n\n Honestly. It ruined my life for a solid year before I got some self respect and left the module.\n\n The on call schedule, putting out fires (tools go down), the constant stream of pings and messages when something happens.\n\n What killed me wasn’t losing sleep while on call,",
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      "[post] I’ve heard the workload and pressure there can be pretty intense, especially for equipment engineers. Is WET really that bad?",
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    "post_text": "Just got an offer for a WET Equipment Engineer role at TSMC Arizona and I’m pretty torn.I’ve heard the workload and pressure there can be pretty intense, especially for equipment engineers. Is WET really that bad?Mostly curious about the actual hours, on-call/weekend work, management, and work-life balance. I currently have a stable engineering job in California, so moving to Arizona is a pretty big decision.Would love to hear from anyone who works there or used to work there. Would you do it again?",
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