Inside Story of Samsung Research Institute's Vibe

I work in semiconductor research at Samsung. Looking at the vibe these days, it feels like the company's going under. 1. Everyone in the department took vacation from 5/21 to 6/4. Literally everyone's taking a break lol 2. Everyone's doing bare minimum. Even managers are like "let's just wing it" in meetings, and when other departments email work requests, nobody replies. 3. When Hynix opens hiring, 50% of our department applies. It's like they're pulling 1-2 key people from each process. People are going to the US pretty regularly too. 4. They're avoiding foundry/LSI research, dropping everything related to it, and making it all confidential. They're erasing every single contact point so nobody gets dragged into non-memory work. 5. Today on the internal anonymous board, they're doing a relay of authenticated strike participation with real names. People are screenshotting their photos and department names and posting them. 6. People are changing their messenger status messages to "on strike." 7. People are openly talking about job hunting, trashing the company, and strike stuff right in front of managers and executives. Executives are avoiding the area and managers are cursing along with them. 8. Everyone thinks that even if negotiations happen somehow, management-labor relations can't be fixed. Will the company ever recover...? 10:25 PM. 2026.5.13.. 600k views