Cypress Semiconductor Reviews

Pros

Relatively very good work compared to other Hyderabad companies.
Very very open culture - quick and early feedback.
Got exposure to many different designs.
Change in domain gave lot of new learning

Cons

Frequent schedule changes.
New features coming without detailed specs.
Lot of travel required at short notice.

New senior manager came in at Bangalore bringing politcs to non politcal company. Blindly shutting down and downsided Hyderabad sight. Bringing in own buddys for contractor works.

Advice to Senior Management

Get ride of outsiders - internal managers need to work out the ladder.

Pros

1)Good recognition of the work
2)Freedom to work independently
3)Decent stock compensation
4)Brand value
5)Good exposure to complete product flow

Cons

1)Extremely high work pressure:Even before a project is completed, another is in tow.Typically have to put in extra hours during day + work on weekends
2) Difficult to balance work-life for those with families
3)More bureaucracy than the size of the company merits

Advice to Senior Management

Please reduce design bureaucracy
Please reduce the work pressure
Give better perks and on site facilities
Collect 360 degree feedback

Pros

Honesty
Open communication
Good physical environment - office, gym etc.
Hard working people
Strong business focus
Lots of responsibility for young engineers

Cons

Bureaucracy - worse than many government departments
Lack of respect
Hypocrisy
Below average pay
Too much pressure
Too much command-and-control at all levels of management
Politics - in spite of denials

Advice to Senior Management

Loosen up the bureaucracy, stop the abusiveness, allow employees to have a better work life balance, remove the culture of fear, decentralize more

Pros

Training, Growth, Communication, Opportunity, Product

Cons

Over documentation, long hours, cafeteria,

Advice to Senior Management

Relax

Pros

Competent people technically
Transparency
Benefits
Result driven
No nonsense

Cons

Burden of process
Politically driven environment

Advice to Senior Management

Prefer creativity

Pros

1. Good working environment
2. Good experienced and Knowledgeable tech leaders

Cons

1. Bad politics in upper management
2. No opportunity in career (e.g. promotion).

Advice to Senior Management

Cypress India believes more on "Stick" than "Carrot". They should become more employee oriented company. So that they can get more quality service from their employee.

Pros

Access to executives. Encourages intiative, risk taking. Fast paced work culture so things are always evolving. In some ways, like a startup

Cons

Some strategy is not coherent. Depends on the whim of the CEO T. J . Rodgers. Enormous amount of time spent preparing for his presentations.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a longer term view of corporate strategy. Culture can be brutal so high powered employees has a tendency to leave.

Pros

Work with brilliant minds
Great benefits
Aggressive atmosphere

Cons

Do they even make any money selling chips? It seemed like all management cared about was price per share. Yes, I know, they did sell chips and make money doing that. But watching lives get trashed because management wanted to see the price per share go up really stunk. Cypress is a real "churn and burn" pit. I think that one out of every twenty hires survives there for more than five years.

Advice to Senior Management

Just get rid of all of your people and automate your fabs. Then you can't wreck other people's lives who trusted in you.

Pros

Hard working culture. Promotions are based on performance not on seniority. Fun, smart people to work with. Bottom line up front.

Cons

Balancing life / work is a challenge. Spend way too much time overjustifying products or decisions. TJ is killer to innovation.

Advice to Senior Management

TJ is too involved in too many things. Everyone acts out of fear of making TJ upset. Managers and their direct reports spend way too much time preparing for the boardroom.

Pros

Any place is a good place at this economy (Just shut your mouth and work)!
Pays for higher education (paid for my masters) and good benefits!

Cons

Fear rules!
F*** is very common word!!!
Employees are treated as a working machines!
Management blames each other!
No one talks straight!!

Advice to Senior Management

Management is not something that is learned in CLASS! It is an attitude/skill you build yourself.
Among the PPP (product, price & People), it is people who bring value to the company.