Freescale Semiconductor Reviews in Phoenix, AZ Area

Pros

Freedom to enhance one's knowledge on subject matter. Used to have a lot of people with a ton of experience to learn from. People are easy to get along.

Cons

Total lack of communication from senior management. The current CEO had only one or two employee meetings in phoenix since he took over several years ago. Not a lot of options in terms of career growth. With the burden of huge debt, this CEO is content with keeping this company in the middle of the pile.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate. Be more engaged with employees.

Pros

Pretty good benefits with high starting paid time off of 4+ weeks. Management good for working with employees, overall friendly environment.

Cons

Constant cost cutting efforts, layoffs loom much of the time and general attitude of employees makes completing tasks difficult at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Share additional information with employees regarding high level strategy. Constant under-resourcing and fire-fighting are driving away good talent and leaving frustrated staff.

Pros

Lots of opportunity for technical growth

Cons

- Company declares that it supports work/life balance, but management does not. It is an international company, so off hours meetings are a give but management expects it every day on both ends of the day and still expects a full regular hours day,
- mangers are prone to loud and frequent episodes of drama. really stifle participation and creativity

Advice to Senior Management

- Listen to employees,
- don't micro-manage
- compensate for long and late hours

Pros

Motorola was great; freescale not good

Cons

No recognition; favoritism from management

Advice to Senior Management

Need employee development; opportunity to take on new challenges; transparent

Pros

Nice friendly environment, good benefit, flexible hours, using latest tool and software technology, very good 401K program, great program for local program, close to everything!

Cons

No Stock option, no employee stock purchase, NOT pay well, Not a clearly career path, not much feedback from the manager, would be nice to have a matching grant for local school like some other company have done, always getting rid of employee each quarter (not stable)!

Advice to Senior Management

Stop biasing, giving more feedback, raising the moral to your employee, get more involve,

Pros

The salary and benefits were good. The locations is good. Was doing an interesting work, publishing number of conference papers.

Cons

Do not see the advancement in the company. Very empty offices. Was a little boring while working for this company.

Pros

Flexibility of hours, telecommuting, work/life balance

Cons

No growth potential, kept in the same position for years

Advice to Senior Management

Hire some new blood

Pros

good pay and benefits, big company so a lot of chance grow

Cons

close to IPO, so management is careful of growth

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

The co-workers are great.
The work is what i always wanted to do.

Cons

SR MGT gets huge rewards despite the spiral of failures.
Quality - refuse to accept returns so it appears the quality has improved- bonus achieved.
Huge debt.
Minimal new products, only update of the same old parts.

Advice to Senior Management

Project Managers are useless, we don't need people creating powerpoint presentations or timelines. Please, supply us with the tools to do our jobs (testers, handlers) and we just might make a deadline. And management yelling and screaming in meetings won't help make a profit.

Pros

Freescale Semiconductor has excellent benefits and treats there employees fairly. They are a continuously growing company and have are always creating new and better products. They will be around for several years to come.

Cons

Freescale Semiconductor's product line is limited "mainly" to the automotive industry. Therefore if there is a downturn in the automotive industry there is a slow down at the factory. In recent years there has been little or no annual raises to the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should give more positive feedback to it's employees. As far as compensation goes, even a small raise is a good thing to an employee. Years of no raises will cause employees to look elsewhere for better opportunities.