Analog Devices Reviews

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

The environment in ADGT is not highly pressured unlike other work places. I believe that the company values its employees’ working time by giving them the freedom of when to take their break and when to work.

Cons

Although the flexible working hours signifies an enjoyable, unrestricted, and lowly pressured working environment, it may leave employees to be too lax.

Advice to Senior Management

Although the flexible working hours signifies an enjoyable, unrestricted, and lowly pressured working environment, it may leave employees to be too lax. The employees of the company have the tendency to take a very long break when their working time is not strictly monitored. Moreover, the breaks which are taken three times a day may consume too much working time.

Pros

Lot of opportunities within the company

Cons

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

Pros

It is a great place for work-Life balance and a stability.

Cons

The pay is not competitive and you have no access to weath creation.

Advice to Senior Management

You are spreading too thin and are basing decisions on old market information. You are shortsighted.

Pros

Work environment is friendly and the people there are easy to work with.

Cons

The work was a bit tedious.

Pros

They offer great salaries, bonuses, and benefits. More importantly the company fosters young engineers and encourages technological development among it's employees.

Cons

The commute in the area surrounding Boston can be very difficult. I don't have any other complaints about the company.

Advice to Senior Management

I am quite happy with my position so far. Continue to encourage engineers to be engineers and give them incentives to continue the technological track if that is what they prefer.

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 work, Friendly co-workers, good place to retire

Cons

Low pay compared to the industry

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing

Pros

You can do whatever you want on a day-to-day basis as long as you complete the minimum. This is beneficial if you are driven...
There is a collegial environment for technical people.

Cons

There are many people who are doing the bare minimum and few people who are striving for excellence - particularly in business management.
It is extremely difficult to advance one's career here. Wait for someone to die...