The "exact" same comment has been circulating since late 2020 before it even appeared on Glassdoor. I mean I even wrote about it on HN [1] twenty days before hand. And my knowledge of it didn't came from Glassdoor.
At first I thought it could be some sort of smear / PR campaign. But given the time it took to MSM media this doesn't seems to be the case. And yes work culture is quite different, you are expected long hours in TSMC ( It is well known within Taiwan ), but it is not "that" much different to working in Samsung or Intel Foundry. As deepnotderp pointed out in the current top post. You want to catch up to leading edge TSMC, you work hard! You dont want Intel and Samsung to catch up to TSMC, you work harder.
At first I thought it could be some sort of smear / PR campaign. But given the time it took to MSM media this doesn't seems to be the case. And yes work culture is quite different, you are expected long hours in TSMC ( It is well known within Taiwan ), but it is not "that" much different to working in Samsung or Intel Foundry. As deepnotderp pointed out in the current top post. You want to catch up to leading edge TSMC, you work hard! You dont want Intel and Samsung to catch up to TSMC, you work harder.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29583206
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