Pros
- Good start for a fresh graduate - Few of the mangers train the new hires very well - Hands on experience across all phases of the chip design - Diversified culture and young people
Cons
-Internship: This company picks young and fresh graduates out of school as interns and there is a possible conversion to a full time after 6 months. During the intern phase people tend to put in the same amount of time as a full time employee. This can go till 3/4 A.M in the morning or some times all night. No jokes ask any intern that is currently doing his internship or any other engineers who are on a full time( from internship) they 'll let you know more about this. -Full time: Firstly there is no work life balance at this place. The management expects you to put in crazy hours,. The day is so long at this place that it continues till 8/9 P.M on an average and some times all nights too. It is not only during the tape-out time but the late night thing happens through out the design cycle. Mangers call you at weird hours in the night and also on weekend . There are meetings happening on weekends and they expect people to show up on weekends. Some managers compel to finish over the weekend and they make a big fuss out of it if people don't work on weekends. This is the biggest complain here that there are no weekends for yourself but most of the time you end up working for the company. if you want weekends for you and your family then definitely this is not the place that you would look for. -Management : Most of the managers here are good. Few of the managers do take care of their team's well being and the amount of time they put in but this is rarely seen among other managers. There is one Sr Manger here who yells at people for silly reasons, looses temper quickly, uses indecent language ( uses F words ) . He doesn't know how to treat people with respect. He grills and yells at people in the meetings. He pretty much lost his entire team but still nothing seems to be improving. He is the main reason/motivation for people to quit. ( All the engineers who report to him tend to leave after certain time ). Though the management is aware of the attitude of this guy they seem to be helpless because he is one of the senior most guys in the management .He is a tough guy to deal with.