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Why Samsung is losing its top talent to SK hynix

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After a decade overseeing DRAM processes at Samsung Electronics, a 43-year-old engineer known as A accepted a job at SK hynix in 2023. What surprised him most wasn’t the technical work—it was the liberation from what he called a “culture of falsified reporting.” At Samsung, cross-departmental projects often revealed defects in process or design, but these were routinely downplayed to avoid internal blame. “Everyone knew the game,” he said. “Minimize the problem or your team gets burned.” Engineer B, who joined Samsung after graduating from a top engineering university and spent eight years at the company, echoed the sentiment. He expected little difference between Korea’s leading chipmakers, but found SK hynix operated on a radically different model: bottom-up decision-making and open internal competition. “At Samsung, the first response to any new proposal is, ‘Will you take responsibility if this fails?’” he said. “That alone kills innovation.” As Samsung’s dominance in memory chips

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