Pros

Good oportunity to learn new things, to improve yourself by working in a profesional environment, to be part of a motivating team.

Cons

very often you are required to work extra time to be able to finish in time for tape out
promotion and salary increase is not as motivating as it should be

Advice to Senior Management

I recomend motivating the employees that show dedication and commitment to the job, that work hard to get the job done , to improve themselves, to develop good relationships with colegues. This motivation can be in the form of promotion or salary increase.

Pros

warm, open, collegial relationships with engineers/technical staff

Cons

management without vision, mediocre business managers (all talk only)
too many managers, many with poor leadership skills

Advice to Senior Management

wake up!!

Pros

As an engineer you have flexible time, as long as you deliver good quality and in time. Your proffesional development depends only on how motivated you are, once this is visible you get full support from managers.

Cons

Although inevitable in any company, too often you see too much politics... Another unpleasent downside, especially for star performers, you don't have bonuses based on project performance, but only an annual bonus based more on the overall company results; in some cases this type of reward is not motivating at all, and descourage performance oriented mindset.

Advice to Senior Management

Implement programms to encourage high performance.

Pros

Still a good place to work, respectful management, not bad navigation through tough economy. Knowledgeable staff, good chance to educate yourself working with industry leading experts. Company is an industry leader in some application areas. Restructuring helped company to remain an industry leader, stay on the cutting edge of technology.
Still good benefits in tough economy times. Flexible time off,

Cons

After cutting costs people got assigned to multiple projects, too much paperwork, sometimes that paperwork takes more time and looks more important than actual work. People getting nervous, some are leaving the company (usually the best experts). Chances to get training reduced with budget cuts.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the number of middle level managers, amount of paperwork and reporting, regular internal meetings and conference calls. Be pragmatic!

Pros

Lot's of policies and procedures to get things done, none of which are really documented anywhere. You really have to know who to talk to to get things done

Cons

Probably none if you are in Munich. In a satellite development site, it's very difficult to understand what's going on.

Advice to Senior Management

Lose about half the management and kill the matrix management approach

Pros

Infineon has a very good compensation package. There is some flexibility about your working hours. Because of its location (ITPL), it takes time to reach here but the shuttle service is very good and comfortable. ITPL also has lot of banks and bill-pay facilities. So it is hassle-free to get anything done.

Cons

PLease be informend that I am commenting only about Bangalore office and more so my particular group. Bangalore office is very dependent on the HQ for direction. In addition, If you were planning to do some creative work, you can forget about it. Quality of the employees is not very high either.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire properly

Pros

The best parts about working at infineon are probably the amount of time off emplyees get. However this applies to a lot of companies in germany and austria as well. Tons of paid vacation and a pretty flexible schedule allow for a lot of personal freedoms other companies may not offer.

Cons

Poor managment, too many managers, too few options for career opportunities, poor grading system by HR. HR is probably my biggest complaint, since they seem to do so little for their employees. Even if it's not the case, they are not making it look any different. This leads to a lot of unhappy employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at HR to give the rest of the employees a reason to work. HR isn't doing anything to motivate their employees. Far from it actually. A poor, unstructured grading system that noone understands lead to unhappy employees feeling treated unfairly.

Pros

- exciting technologies
- Infineon is the technology leader in a couple of market segments which could be the basis for a sustainable profitable company
- and will probably evolve as a good company to work for once it's current trouble blow over

Cons

- the organizational setup of the company is an unlimited source of frustration
- IFX managament is constantly a victim to it's own lies
- Infineon has terrible corporate governance (it's supervisory board is controlled by SIEMENS which obviously does not have a clear idea how to setup a profitable compay
- Infineon's way of management tends to ignore reality and is mostly surprised when they ultimately have to face it
- the best CEO IFX ever had was recently ousted (W.Ziebart)
- working for IFX is like banging your head against the wall 24/7
- Infineon's technical ladder system is completely degraded and absolutely demotivating
(in reality it creates 2nd class employees, which can be pushed around by whomever is not part of the technical ladder). There is no system in place which makes sure that grades on the technical ladder are awarded based on merits. It is rather driven by politics and proximity to the headquarter

Advice to Senior Management

- face reality for once
- merge with a company which knows how to run a company in that field, Infineon is a lost case
- stop reorganizing the company on the paper only (usually the organization chart is not worth the paper it is printed on)