Pros

Pretty good 401K match. Pay is average to the industry I think. Bonuses get better as you advance in grade level. If you are a really hard worker, you need not even put in 40 hours to run circles around the average workers. But if you are not in MA, opportunities are limited. Either move to MA or battle it out with the senior site managers and engineers.

Cons

A re-org means that some people at E13 and above swap nameplates and titles around, change accounting buckets of products, alter some group names and call it change. Everyone else is wondering why it was called a re-org. There is hardly any growth left in this company with the current resolve to hold back increased investment. It has the same revenues as 10 years ago and the same stock price to boot. They have quit talking about becoming a $5B company anymore. The engineers work on projects in the lab and at design stations, while managers stay in their offices with the doors closed most of the time. It is a rare sight to see a manager looking at the technology in the lab or elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

You guys need to shake things up. Figure out how to grow the business. Several competitors have grown by leaps and bounds in 10 years. Why can't ADI? If you can't do it, step aside and let someone else run the show.

Pros

Pay and benefits are good. The company has money and knows how to manage it. Diversified product line helps during recessions.

Cons

Internal communication is poor most of the time; vague at best. Company can be slow moving strategically.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat us like big people, and communicate with us. Listening more would help too.

Pros

It's similar to working at university. You are on your own and need to be self motivated, but there is lots of knowledge and help available around if you ask for it. You yourself take care of your professional development, you choose the areas that are most interesting for you, in between design projects you have lots of time and opportunities to research, try different ideas and architectures. If you are lazy and not motivated, it's a good place with stable job for you to sit quietly in your qubicle and slowly do routine projects. But if you love the black magic of analog engineering, that is the best place to grow professionally. As opposed to university it is more rewarding in a sense that you see your ideas implemented in real products very quickly. At companies I worked before I had hard times putting my ideas into silicon, the responce was - "we are not a university, we need to get the product out ASAP, we have no time or resources for that kind of innovations and can not take the risk". Well, I guess that is why ADI is so succesfull - because they do have time for innovation.

Cons

As opposed to professional growth, the career and salary growth is slow. Again like working at university, you will get rewarded after a decade or two of succesfull work and innovations, but don't expect quick appreciation of your efforts.

Advice to Senior Management

As opposed to the previous reviewers I don't think better communication with management will do any good. It's part of the ADI culture to have management distanted from professionals and have the least interference with their jobs. From the experience I had from other companies the more management is involved the worse things usually get. The best way to manage is to orgainze the process and environment and let professional do their job.

Pros

Company remains profitable during hard times. Layoffs have been held to a minimum over the years.

Cons

Limitted opportunities for promotion. Benefits are below average and getting worse.

Advice to Senior Management

Get competitive or you'll loose your talent when things turn up. Reward the talent, even it is just a pat on the back.

Pros

Our design team was tight and focused. Everyone, from mid-management to individual contributors pulled their own weight and helped each other.

Cons

Management at upper levels not very forthcoming with focus and direction of design team. As a result, our efforts at times felt obstructed or without a clear goal. Bad for morale.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more open and transparent to the teams that remain in the company.

Pros

good balance between work and personal life; flexibile working environment; compensation is okay;

Cons

your agressiveness and ambition in work will probably be lost a lot in working with Analog Devices;
the communications among the senior management and employees are poor. A fair amount of employees don't have clear understanding where the company is heading.

Advice to Senior Management

better communication to the underneigth people;
stimulate the people's work enthusiasm;
the company should not pace in the same where in the past five years. It should grow out of the market and competitors.

Pros

Leading edge technology semiconductor company. Strong emphasis on innovation. Conservative management. Broad customer base.

Cons

Below average salaries. Raises and promotions rely too much on longevity than annual performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't be slow to adjust salaries to be more competitive as the economy recovers. It'll be more expensive to replace talent later.

Pros

There is not too much pressure on the employees, you can choose wether you want to put hours on something or just stay there, receiving your wage every month. It's pretty stable job position, not too many job offers, not too many laid-offs.

Cons

Not good place to live in, not many things to do. Neither the salary is good, is below the electronics average.

Advice to Senior Management

More communication with the base-of-the-pyramid workers. Better salary conditions for us. Put more money on software and hardware tools.

Pros

Great engineering company. You can work with lots of technologies, products and markets. You get to work with people from all over the world and all over the industry - from phones to jet engines. You can get into the nitty-gritty of projects and problems pretty quickly because many people have generally been there a long time and consequently know what to do in many types of situations. Lots of mentors around.

Cons

You somehow always feel like you are under-compensated, whether it is true or not. If you are not in MA you may end up reporting into there to someone who just happens to be located in the right place. Pretty much everything has been off-shored to Asia (including many customers' operations) so if there are any manufacturing or development or customer issues to be resolved (as there always are in every company) you can find yourself working over the phone late into the evening trying to get things done or find things out. In a different type of industry this is time that you could be spending with your family. I guess that is just the way things are now in every manufacturing industry, not just at Analog Devices.

Advice to Senior Management

Find creative ways of making it up to people who spend a lot of their off-hours working with people offshore.

Pros

There are still a lot of brilliant engineers at Analog. They are very good at minimizing layoffs and cut backs. Very good 401(k)

Cons

Twenty years ago, Analog was the leader and other semis looked to what we were doing and imitated us. Now we are to scared to take calculated risks and be the leaders of the industry. We wait to see what everybody else is doing and get in line with them. (especially in regards to compensation)

Not a lot of excitement. The type of personality that thrives at Analog is one that doesn't like change and just cares about getting a steady paycheck. They're willing to let their career be stagnant in exchange for that job security and steady paycheck.

Advice to Senior Management

Lead the industry instead of following it.