Xilinx Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – - convenient commute
- decent compensation
- interesting technology
- stable revenue & good margin

Cons – - new management is hard to swallow...
- re-org after re-org, nurturing only those political monsters with thick faces and less than minimum decency to other human beings

Advice to Senior Management – life is short... be good for a change... remember how you saw the world when you were a little kid... having fun and imagine things... there are more things in life on earth than "efficiency"

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – The company was once a wonderful place to work. Maybe it can be that way again someday ...

Cons – Xilinx used to be a very good place to work. The new executive management team has completely changed the atmosphere and corporate culture for the worse. These guys came in with the mindset that everything about the company was broken and that they know just how to fix it. The fact of the matter is that the company was mostly in very good shape. The employees were motivated and happy for the most part. Most of our products were selling very well - the execption being the Spartan family which was torpedoed by the poor decisions of incompetent management. A few changes to the corporate structure were in order but not the clean sweep that Gavrielov and Peng have orchestrated. They threw out the bath water, the baby, and everything else in the bathroom that wasn't nailed down.

Advice to Senior Management – You need to LISTEN to the feedback you're getting from your employees instead of brushing it off. You are losing good people at a rapid rate - they want to work somewhere that they are treated with respect. Some time soon there will be a "tipping point" when all your engineers are new hires in India that don't have a clue how anything works. The company will then implode in a glorious fashion. If you really care about the future success of Xilinx you need to PAY ATTENTION. Stop making employee decisions based only on greed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – Most of the people are good to work with. Do have some great products. Great market share and margin, generating a lot of cash.

Cons – Management lacks direction and motivational skills. Cheap. No right compensation structure in place. Marketing is useless in setting company's direction.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat people better. Understand the advantage of the company and be aggressive. Don't just enjoy the market share and rest. Definitely need better management, especially Sales and Marketing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – Co-workers are great
Location is great
Work Life Balance is great

Cons – Management is NOT willing to give promotions or raises
You may transfer positions and rotate a few times but will NOT recieve a raise
CEO has no real Vision for the company just #s

Advice to Senior Management – Come up with a real Compensation Program
Moeshe needs to come up with a real vision for the company. Something employees can buy-in to and strive for not some arbitrary $3B or VX,

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – Good benefits and pay.
Get to work with very smart, competent and creative people.
In a market that is expanding, so if you can survive the politics and layoffs, one could do very well.

Cons – Moral is low, many are actively working on strategies to leave the company and discussing it freely.
People are not valued by upper management, but seem to be viewed as a number.
Many small, under the radar, layoffs have workers nervous.
Top down decisions made without apparent evaluation of the situation or any goal in mind.
Some departments are directed, not by management, but by a "pet" project group.
Communication, even within groups, is falling apart. The right thumb doesn't know what the right index finger is doing, let alone what the left hand is doing.
Internal competition is rampant with many "us" and "them" attitudes between groups and departments.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat employees like people before they all leave the building.
Manage people, not positions.
Stop playing teams off of one another by playing favorites.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – 1.Next generation technology
2.Excellent & Brilliant colleagues
3. Market leader as holding more than 50% market in the FPGA segment
4. Brand name

Cons – 1. Current Management Strategies & poor decisions
2. Due to layoffs the environment is not conducive for productivity
3. No growth & job satisfaction

Advice to Senior Management – Nothing.....why should I? ....as no valuable suggestions from any Employee has never been considered by the Management, if possible try to bring back the previous working culture which Xilinx is known for.

Former Employee – worked at Xilinx

Pros – There are many smart and talented people at Xilinx, who want to produce a good product, and generally cooperate with each other.
The campus is in an odd area for an office park, so the commute tends to be reverse.

Cons – The good people are increasingly being driven out by a management that rewards those who "kiss up and kick down." Cost-cutting became an end-goal, with any attrition being seen as good attrition. (And everything I hear from those still there is that it has gotten much, much worse.)

Advice to Senior Management – Wim's "no layoff" policy in 2000 bought the company an enormous (and ofttimes undeserved) streak of employee loyalty for almost a decade. What do you suppose will happen when the job market in Silicon Valley finally improves? Who is going to stick around at a company that treats people as disposable? Not exactly your top performers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – 1. Location: Away from North first street, easier commute for many.
2. Still a technology leader in FPGA industry.

Cons – 1. Unlike the past, there is constant pressure to perform otherwise you are out.
2. The CEO (especially) down there is lack of communication. The employees never hear from the CEO. We barely know who he is.

Advice to Senior Management – Xilinx was built on respect for employees and treating people right, that was Xilinx's differentiating factor, don't forget that.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – 1) Intelligent, hard working employees
2) The paycheck comes as long as you're here
3) Some mid-management understands

Cons – 1) Can we ever recover innovation and faith in this company?
2) Forced Bell curves are medieval. What are Moshe and his HR cronies thinking?
3) Do they care or is this a moot point before the company wholesales to Singapore and India?
4) Are they laughing at our whining while they flog good people to death?
5) Pride in American technology and innovation?

Advice to Senior Management – To Moshe and his "yes men lackeys". Please, this company was built on the intelligence of fine people, innovative products, and great leadership. Just tell us when this will all be over and let us get on with our lives.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xilinx

Pros – Stable business and prospect is not that bad.

Cons – Political senior management
New management continuously brings their friends to upper position.
But it is so easy to realize they are not useful.

Advice to Senior Management – Money is not all. Learn psychology.
Call a meeting to listen employee's feedback and won't listen to them. What is the point?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend