Analog Devices Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Pros

Entreprenurial culture, balance of work and personal life, good benefits; most senior managers are long-time veterans of the business and know their stuff. Ray Stata is a class act. Great, friendly, collaborative engineering environment.

Cons

No central vision for marketing strategy, disorganized, chaotic; new management on learning curve; stay away from Marketing Group. Poor management.

Advice to Senior Management

Be careful whom you hire at high levels; they can ruin the culture and weaken ADI's competitive edge.

Pros

Lot of opportunities within the company

Cons

Lots of politics inside that can affect your desire to work hard

Pros

Very stable and strong company. Many opportunites for employees for advancement and growth. Excellent benefits.

Cons

Supervisors and Managers have lots of freedom. HR and higher management should have regular one-on-one with employees and listen to their greviences.

Advice to Senior Management

From my experience - Supervisors and Managers should be strongly advised to avoid bias and favoritism in their department. Bias and favoritism creates unhealthy atmosphere. It affects individual's performance which in turn affects group/department's performance.

Pros

- supportive environment
- decent benefits
- technical folks can advance in technical roles, don't have to reach a dead end if they don't become managers of others.
- mostly the company seems to "get it" that its people are its most valuable asset.
- stable: no huge swings of growth and shrinkage of workforce.

Cons

- management uneven. Sometimes a brilliant engineer isn't a great leader or manager.
- tight budget control can make it very difficult to hire the right person at the right time.

Pros

- Good non monetary benefits package
- "Small company" feel, despite larger size
- Lots of opportunity for junior people to learn

Cons

- Pay package extremely low compared to nearby companies
- Little focus paid on actually getting things done, and products into customers hands

Advice to Senior Management

It seems that some parts of the company are milked as a cash cow, and the rest of the company is left to rot. The neglect of the less exciting product lines has led a once industry-leading technology company to be an also-ran in MEMS and digital chips. That's a shame, but it doesn't have to be permanent!

Pros

Good 401K Benifits program with matching that is best around.

Cons

Little tough for advancement. Will bring in outside to replace. Is hiring a lot from overseas lately

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate with employees of non-managemnet status

Pros

Good chance to learn technical things

Cons

less space for personal career development. compensation is slightly lower than average level on the market

Pros

I think ADI is financially responsible. I liked that they would rather have an overall corporate shut-down during the holidays (employees must either use all vacation days or not get paid) than have a layoff.
I think mgmt usually works with the employee for balanced work life (work from home allowed) but it is not evenly given to employees.
Everyone, no matter what level, gets 2 bonuses a year.

Cons

Mgmt is very cliquey. Mgmt loves to point fingers at unders when things go wrong.
Very poor on training employees. New software comes in and you are thrown to the wolves.
They have been using the economy lately to get rid of employees. This goes against what they have been all about with loyalty and corporate shut downs to prevent layoffs.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication at the department levels need to increase especially in Sales and Distribution.
Annual Reviews and career development need to be stronger and more to the point.
ADI could afford (figuratively and monetary) to increase Employee Value perspective with maybe a corporate Christmas party or other paid for corporate event. ADI has no social aspects at all.

Pros

Great technical environment, technology savvy staff, highly professional and inteligent engineers. The best engineers in the semiconductor industry you can work with. work life balance is good, not many overtime, annual GTC meeting is good for technical growth and exposure.

Cons

Management team is the worst I have ever seen, Little feedback, lack of promotion transparency. Old fashioned business style and hirearchy. Gen X and Y may have trouble to fit in a depressed environment.
Overal, you will be thrilled by your job and co-worker and will feel depressed by the management.

Advice to Senior Management

top mgr don't value business training which is exactly they need such MBA or organizational behaviour courses. A good engineer does not automaticly qualify for a manager position.

Pros

Lots of ADI lifers. Stong culture. Well diversified portfolio.
Well established: 40+ years old.

Cons

Slow pace. Extra effort doesn't get you much in return. Lots of old people with old ideas

Advice to Senior Management

Take more risk. OPBT/reveune isn't the only measure of success.