LSI Reviews

Pros

Good working environment, good people to work with, and the management is willing to help when things get messy and complicated.

Cons

The career path is not very clear to employees.
The on-job training and education is not very well done or scheduled.

Pros

On the leading edge of technology.

Cons

Fast growth is out-pacing the infrastructure.

Pros

Semi-conductor company which has development oriented projects in india. Good for personal growth. Challenging work but well balanced work hours. Cutting edge technologies.

Cons

the company is unheard of. Marketing of products not done. Consumer market has not been entered. the growth of the company is slow.

Advice to Senior Management

enter consumer market. hire more numbers of freshers. create a more grilling work atmosphere to increase productivity and efficiency of the employees

Pros

The opportunities for professional growth and information & knowledge sharing within colleague. It's a good place if you like to balance between work and life.

Cons

Not as big in salary increments as in other companies. But feel like its improving now and hopefully matches other industries in this repect.

Advice to Senior Management

I feel like the management is doing good job as of now and wish it would improve more and make its employees more happier than ever.

Pros

LSI has a lot of good people and they provide competitive benefits and pay compared to the market. The products and markets are interesting and there are a lot of good challenges to work on within the company.

Cons

The upper management is too focused on the stock price and not running the company.

LSI recently sold off their External Storage group to NetApp for $480 million. This is an acquisition that they previously purchased from Hyundai for $760 million and include the purchase of OnStor for $25 million and StorAge for $50 million and a couple of other minor purchases. Revenue with ESG during this period went from $250 million to $750 million.

So why sell a growing and profitable business at such a mark down price? LSI management had been unable to meet their roadmaps due to under investment in R&D and a horribly managed outsourcing to India. The result was huge dissatisfaction from their key customers and they had the choice to either buckle down, invest and innovate their way out of the hole they had dug for themselves or to have a fire sale and get a short term cash boost.

LSI was the only company to have virtually every major OEM as a customer and with a chips to systems level of integration and was well positioned to be able to provide solutions that their customers needed and demanded but an inability to be flexible and to meet these demands can solely be laid at the feet of the managers which has resulted in LSI backtracking from being a storage player and turning into a shrinking chip company with a lack of focus.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't be cowards. It is better to have a vision and fail than to be caretakers in a graveyard. LSI's so called Executive Leadership Team has no vision, no commitment and no heart. They are accounts of the worst the kind and sadly I expect this company to continue to shrink and become another Adaptec.

Pros

Workgroup and people I work with.

Cons

Management projecting growth is round the corner for the last several years.

Advice to Senior Management

Look for aggressive opportunities to grow the business

Pros

Provided a stable and fun environment previously
Flexible work/life balance
Decent benefits
Certain management would really appreciate efforts, while others would not

Cons

Challenges to move groups
Promotions were difficult to receive
Lack of direction in past few years - eventually lead the the sell of division to NetApp

Advice to Senior Management

For as much positive growth we saw at LSI, there were far too many misses. Syntax, ContinuStor, StorAge, ONStor...will miss the friendships, but company direction was lacking

Pros

Exciting Technology
Excellent Business Unit Management
Lots of Opportunity
Awesome Benefits

Cons

C-Level Management can be prone making decision based solely on impact to short term stock price.
Not as nimble as smaller competition.
Politics can sometimes cloud judgement

Advice to Senior Management

Think about the smaller start up competition and realize we have to be nimble and flexible to compete and stay a market leader. Cannot rest on "We are LSI and because of that customers will always choose us"

Pros

LSI provided a good work/life balance and lots of opportunities for advancement. Immediate management was very supportive and communicative. Good salary and excellent benefits.

Cons

Very technically oriented, IT-based company. If you work in a support role outside of IT, sometimes it feels like you are an outsider looking in.

Pros

Great people to work with.
Some very bright people in the company.
Makes some pretty cool products.
Good DAS team.

Cons

Management needs work.
Need to offer a more fun work atmosphere...feels very "office space" like.
Getting a laptop for a work PC is like pulling teeth.