Wolfspeed strives to foster an inclusive and engaged workplace culture where every employee feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. By building a strong sense of community where employees feel connected and supported, we aim to enhance collaboration and innovation, enabling employees to show up each day to do their best and most productive work. We believe this allows Wolfspeed to solve problems that other companies think to be impossible, driving better business results.
Wolfspeed is committed to investing in the growth and development of its most important resource–its people. We provide a wide variety of opportunities for employees to develop professionally and grow their careers at Wolfspeed. Wolfspeed employees receive their learning and development through a combination of knowledge from job related experiences, interactions with others and formal developmental offerings.
The Wolfspeed Performance and Development (P&D) Cycle is a continuous process of planning, coaching, reviewing, and communicating employee performance and development. It is built to assess team members across the organization, identify high-potential employees and rising talent and identify opportunities for advancement. While we actively recruit new hires, we remain committed to retention, development and advancement of the talent we already have.
Wolfspeed offers a number of education-related benefits, which are currently available to United States employees. We offer tuition reimbursement (Wolfspeed reimburses employees for completed applicable college coursework) and STEM education sponsorship (North Carolina and New York employees attend courses that are selected and paid for by Wolfspeed) as a benefit. Additionally, we offer a student loan debt repayment program for eligible early career employees in the United States.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) play a critical role in advancing our values and business objectives. They serve as a platform for discussing strategic goals within the organization, fostering a more inclusive and supportive work environment. ERGs provide a strong support system that promotes awareness, respect and inclusion in the workplace. Each ERG is dedicated to benefiting and advocating for both members and non-members by working strategically, both internally and externally, and contributing to our overall business success. All ERGs and their associated events are voluntary and open to all employees.
Our values are a simple, yet powerful, reflection of who we are and how we act; they are in all that we say, do and achieve for our Company. They reflect both our great history of disruptive innovation and set the tone for the exciting future ahead. We do amazing things in a human way.
Team members from around the world across every business function shared their thoughts about our values through focus groups, emails and conversations. As a result, we’ve established principles that represent what we want the experience to be for our employees as well as the customers, partners and communities we serve.
We value our people above all else. Their safety is primary in every decision we make. We always act with integrity and respect for our people, workplace and community. Relationships matter. We value everyone’s contribution and an environment of spirited and open debate.
Our passion for making the world better through innovation means we take risks and question conventional thinking, developing new technologies and ways of doing business—leading the way, every single day.
We are accountable to each other and committed to the highest standards of safety, quality, work and behavior.
Wolfspeed is proud to foster strong relationships with colleges and universities. Our company not only partners with higher education institutions for recruitment purposes, but also for consulting and research, corporate social responsibility, early talent development and executive thought leadership on campuses. Wolfspeed builds strategic partnerships with colleges and universities that have a strong focus on STEM and community engagement.
Wolfspeed has a decades-long partnership with North Carolina State University, where five of our six founders graduated. The Wolfspeed Endowed Scholarship in Memory of Dr. John Palmour and the John Palmour Distinguished Professorship in Materials Science and Engineering were created in 2023.
Wolfspeed supported North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in many ways, including a $4 million commitment over five years for the Wolfspeed Endowed Scholars Program.
In the Mohawk Valley region, Wolfspeed partners with SUNY Polytechnic Institute on the Wolfspeed Scholars Program, providing hands-on experience, educational skills and careers after graduation.
