Cirrus Logic Reviews

Pros

people are nice and like to share.

Cons

schedule is too tight and there is overnight work

Advice to Senior Management

no

Pros

living in Austin and relaxing environment

Cons

Poor management and there are few highly technical people

Pros

THE PEOPLE!
Everyone is committed to doing the right thing

Cons

work load
There is an inbalance of work responsibilities

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the great work!

Pros

Friendly people. Good cafeteria. Library.

Cons

Low salary. Not willing to pay what you're worth.

Pros

-- lots of fun parties
-- hard working atmosphere
-- really smart co-workers
-- products that you can get excited about

Cons

-- continuous improvement can be difficult
-- everything is in flux

Advice to Senior Management

Keep sticking to the values.

Pros

Try and treat thier employees with respect and make it a fun place to work. If you work remotely it is not a good situation. Very little support outside of corp as it refers to tools, equip needed and understanding of your role. Good people and decent products

Cons

Too many close friendships at the management level that get in the way of making good business decisions. Although they will tell you that there are no politics at Cirrus Logic it is probably the worst I have seen in all the places I have been.

Advice to Senior Management

good luck

Pros

Austin is a fantastic place to live in Texas, you can get used to the heat, allerfies though are a problem
Very fun place to work, mostly engineering types there

Cons

Have only a single successful capability, mixed signal audio
The design tools are dinosaur
Still struggle moving to 180nm
Dangerous there to take chances with new designs and architectures, only old school is approved

Advice to Senior Management

Identify & acquire some other analog businesses while your stock is so valuable

Pros

-Good salary/benefits
- Lots of partys

Cons

- All decisions are based on short term bases. Senior management can decide to close a division now and start again the same division after 6 months. No long term thoughts/direction so far.
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Advice to Senior Management

Jason is trying his best to change the direction of the company and culture. But middle management needs to learn how can they be nice with people and grow the talent.

Pros

None that I can think of at the current time. Over all Cirrus Logic seems like an excellent place to work.

Cons

Very laid back and relaxed environment. No real dress code! There is a happy hour every Friday with free drinks and snacks.

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

Interesting variety of products produced. Good set of intelligent people employed.
Products are competitive and of the high performance genre. Location and commute is
very acceptable. Capital expenditure is appropriate on equipment and facilities.

Cons

Designs are not well standardized to work together as a board solution. Design reuse
is not taken advantage of to the extent possible. Organizational "surprises" happen too frequently
and very quietly. This particular population PhD EE's do not work well as a team. Teams in
general that cross department boundaries are ineffective at the common goal of getting
a product to market.

Advice to Senior Management

Lead, don't follow. Regain the momentum and foresight to drive future technology rather
than slowly following the competition and attempting to provide a solution that is late
in the market cycle and overly difficult use.