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Updated May 16, 2013
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3.1 388 reviews

                             

88% Approve of the CEO

Freescale Semiconductor President & CEO Gregg Lowe

Gregg Lowe

(49 ratings)

52% of employees recommend this company to a friend
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Noida (India)

Current Employee – been working at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than 3 years

Prosgood learning
lot of work that keep you busy throughout the year
initiatives with limited resources

Constoo much work pressure
no growth or extremely slow growth
minimum pay hikes
minimum or no work life balance/flexibility

Advice to Senior ManagementBe employee friendly.. be human not machine...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Noida (India)

Former Employee – worked at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than 7 years

Prosflexi timings,salary,location(if somebody wants to stay in north india)

Conswork,same old projects,nothing challenging,loose your competency with time

Advice to Senior Managementget something new and challenging for india(noida) team

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Former Employee – worked at Freescale Semiconductor

ProsThere is a friendly environment where people help each other learn. Everyone is kind and they have nice facilities.

ConsNot many young employees. The workplace itself feels a bit stagnant, old. Some people are not very knowledgeable or helpful.

Advice to Senior ManagementLook forward.

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Bangalore (India)

Former Employee – worked at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than 3 years

Pros- Good work
- Can learn a lot of cutting edge technologies
- Good pay

Cons- Bad management decisions
- Typical American company with Hire and Fire

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel)

Former Employee – worked at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than a year

Prosnice work enviroment and comfort.
Many courses.

ConsLooks like israel site is in a shrinking process.
More SOC work than design.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Current Employee – been working at Freescale Semiconductor full-time

ProsDynamic and exciting leadership in key technology areas

ConsPatchy record of commitment to talent

Advice to Senior ManagementLack of cohesive focus and definition of roles & responsibilities

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel)

Current Employee – been working at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than 10 years

Prossmart cultural intelligent people , were hired by formed Motorola Semiconductor

ConsLast time has problems with sales in many divisions and many people has been fired

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico)

Current Employee – been working at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than a year

ProsGreat opportunity to build up your career, great responsibilities in short time.

ConsNone, there is no cons to mention at this time.

Advice to Senior ManagementNone

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

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Bucharest (Romania)

Current Employee – been working at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than a year

Pros- nice team & collegues, good oportunity to learn interesting tehnical stuff

Cons- the salary is limited by the market average

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Herzliya (Israel)

Current Employee – been working at Freescale Semiconductor full-time for more than 7 years

ProsGood, pleasant place to work, with excellent people. Lots of stuff to learn for beginners.

ConsPoor job security. Massive layoffs occur every few years. Weak corporate management. Projects are understaffed. Poor marketing / sales performance leading to losing key market places / shares.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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