Cirrus Logic Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Cirrus Logic as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great environment for employees, with intelligent and responsive management. I did a short internship there and I was surprised by the level of professionality of the mangagment.

Cons – No cons. Everything was good. Just note that this is relatively a very small company, and it has all the characteristics of a small company: everybody knows each other and etc

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cirrus Logic full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Wonderfully unique culture where job satisfaction is truly a core value of the company. Low turnover... Many folks have been year for 10+, 15+, 20+ years for a reason. Trustworthy leadership, hardworking & innovative employees, and a fun environment.

Cons – Have to be willing to tough it out when the job demands a little more time than usual. Have to remember it's still a business even with such a relaxed culture. Downtown location & atmosphere isn't everyone's favorite.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cirrus Logic full-time for more than a year

Pros – Lots of parties.
Friendly people.
work/life balance is very good.
little to no pressure (might be bad in some sense).

Cons – pay is average at most (but you don't need to work long hour)
This is a analog company.
It's design methodology is outdated on the digital side. If you come in with experience you won't be learn anything new unless you want to be in analog.

They seems to be trying to be more organize but middle managements doesn't seems to work together on that.

Very disorganize on digital design. Design re-reuse are little to none (although some old timer said their design are highly parameterized). Different design management or group want use different flow/tools/script..etc. Lots of redundant work in terms of setup environment/script...etc on different project. Little to no documentation on design, which makes difficult and time consuming when you need to pick up someone's design. Lack of vision of design reuse and low power, which makes some IP required to re-design several times.

Backend engineers or groups always want to push back what front end engineers wants. Always push back on requirements, and make life less difficult for them.

Advice to Senior Management – If you want to change design methodology, you need to hire someone very experience and let that guy lead.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cirrus Logic full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Live music. Fun coworkers. Flexible work schedules. Downtown austin.

Cons – Slow career growth with unclear path and undefined promotional steps

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cirrus Logic

Pros – Very engineer-focused company.
Great place to work if you are an engineer from South Asia and are early in your career.
Also great if you used to work for Crystal Semiconductor before they merged with Cirrus and you have longtime connections to certain managers.
Generally treat employees like adults, plus frequent beer parties.
Good benefits, and no drug testing.

Cons – Not-invented-here syndrome is alive and well, the concept of design re-use is underdeveloped.
Strong belief in having everyone collaborating at the same site has not lead to collaboration across groups, but devolves into face time being very important. So telecommuting is practically out of the question.
They talk constantly about not being able to hire enough good people, but the recruiting process is pathetic.
Politics and personal relationships are said to play an outsize role in upper management.
Organizational structure may not be sustainable -- roughly 90% of revenue is coming from the audio division (mostly from a single well-known customer). Unless they get major traction from other customers soon I would expect a major re-org in 2013, given the politics I can't imagine it will be fun.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cirrus Logic as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Really fun & exciting place to work. Everyone is very friendly & helpful. Monthly rock concerts, weekly happy hour, celebrations pretty much for every occasion :)

Cons – Didn't get much exposure to other fields within the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cirrus Logic full-time for more than a year

Pros – The company is doing really well.
Great casual atmosphere
friendly/funny people

Cons – Heard things were not handled well when company was not doing good.
pay is okay
heavily dependent on one customer.

Advice to Senior Management – A company cannot run just with design engineers. Start recruiting in other fields equally aggressively and pay them well too.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cirrus Logic full-time for less than a year

Pros – medium sized company helps to grow, in downtown

Cons – The heat during summer is a lot!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cirrus Logic full-time for more than a year

Pros – First, you get the right people on the bus. Then you decide where the bus will go. Cirrus goes to great lengths to hire the right people. I have seen dozens of people passed up in search of the right team member. That kind of hiring discipline is a primary driver of Cirrus' growth. It is an an open secret which has been surprisingly difficult to replicate at other companies.

Cons – We have struggled with hiring enough staff to keep pace with revenue growth.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your CEO. Take the lessons to heart. You don't drive 200% growth by accident. Continue to attract and retain outstanding people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cirrus Logic full-time for more than a year

Pros – Awesome group of senior designers to learn from
The managers are usually easy to work with
No sense of hierarchy
Good efforts are recognized

Cons – Very little scope to contribute as an analog engineer in my team at this moment(but I believe its going to change in future)
Too loud music in concerts :)

Advice to Senior Management – Don't put every possible resource on a prime project. I know we are chasing tight schedules - but what ends up happening is - the work gets too much compartmentalized and people lose the chance to widen their skill sets.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company