Maxim Integrated Products Process Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews

Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 5 months)

Phone interview first, then on-site interview. Mostly technical, quite specific. These people do not have a large picture view, they like to obsess over the little thing they are working on. This makes answering some questions hard if you did not do the exact same thing before that they do.

What surprised me was the honesty of the people who did the interview. Clearly they had not been coached by HR in any way (funny fact: they did not have an HR department for the longest time). Through their honesty I learned the following about Maxim:

1. This company is stingy. And big time so. The managing director still sat on the same chair he got 15 years ago when he started, by the looks of it. Office furniture is old and in need of replacement, but this isn't done to save cost. This is a 2.5 B$ company! Care a little about your employees!

2. The work was described as repetitive and boring by people. I'm not sure how this helps to hire good people.

3. There are little of no growth possibilities, unless you are at HQ (maybe).

4. Everything is centralized and for every little thing signatures at the highest level are required. Unless you are at HQ and have a research position creativity is clearly discouraged.

Overall, I would say it was a bit of an eye opener. I would recommend not working here, unless you have no other options.