Are they actually offering competitive jobs, or is this more of "Americans just don't want to work anymore!"
I don’t know what their criteria were for sending out that spam but no, if they were targeting experienced engineers at well known large US tech companies, it was not at all competitive and made me think they didn’t know how to hire here.
Get the training, work for them for a year and so and then to to Intel or whoever the US govt is funding to be competitive.
But if leadership is terrible how are they the no. 1 player in the world?
It's very boom and bust, between the big companies and contractors they employ they hire and fire thousands on yearly time scales. Long hours and mindless dedication to put in a lot of hours despite big misses by management leading to lots of cancelled half finished projects. Lots of work double time and weekends for 3 months and then they just shut it down anyway and expect you to find another job.
In my experience other tech industries, particularly in the bay area, things like big tech, med tech, etc. are much better fields for technical professionals to get into
It's a kickback sheme too probably, directors collude to clamp hiring to "the cream of the crop" which is basically no one, while the other 2 outfits benefit from monopsony and an influx of cheaper talent they can make investments until their own situation gets dire, and let hiring breathe again. A sort of autoeconomic career cycle dysplasia.
Most of these jobs are only open if you went to college, decided 2 years in that you wanted to work at one of these joints, worked in a lab for 4 years to get your masters, had excellent grades, and your PI was a friend of a friend.
HR just assumes like 99% of the population is deranged.
So, yes and no. Fab is neat but realistically if you like chips I'd really encourage you to go for VLSI and/or some other EE specialty since the US does have plenty of high paying demand from many companies for these positions.