Marvell Technology Reviews

Pros

Good technology portfolio
Decent benefits and facilities
Worldwide presence with facilities across the world
Some good talented people still left

Cons

Poor execution and mgmt
Unstructured with few processes especially around employee growth
Not proper metrics to measure employee performance - rely on how you are perceived by few people

Pros

At first, I was excited to work for Marvell. But after only being here for 6 months, these are the only pros:
-Gym
-My colleagues (excluding direct management)
-Plenty of parking
-Medical benefits

Cons

-Micromanagement is the only kind of management
-Out-of-date processes (or lack of processes)
-Resistance to new ideas and tools
-No focus on growth of the employee (all "promotions" based on who you know)
-Upper management seems to be concerned with "hoarding" money instead of spending it on adding more staff, improving benefits, or providing sufficient licenses for tools
-Absolutely no work/life balance (management constantly suggests to work weekends and 12-hour days)
-No flexible hours (maybe just my particular group)
-1 person does the workload of multiple people

Advice to Senior Management

There needs to be more transparency in the company (funny that management preaches about it but doesn't practice it). Listen to your employees before they all move on to bigger and better things.

Pros

Depending on your department, some supervisors are very supportive and give good training. The atmosphere is very casual, as is most Silicon Valley firms, and hours are flexible, though you will have to prove that you finished the work.

Cons

Not very vibrant atmosphere as most engineers here have communication difficulties.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate corporate strategy more and define a corporate mission.

Pros

(comments pertain to my satellite location and my particular engineering team)

Flexible work hours
Good working environment on site
Convenient office location
Enjoy my work and fellow team members
Great technology in many areas; in others, consistently playing catch-up with industry leaders

Cons

(many of these problems are common to the high-tech industry in general)

"Process" seems to be a dirty word at Marvell--reinvention is preferred
Revolving door in many upper mgmt positions
Management by politics and relationships is common; promotion in some (many?) teams seems to depend on ethnic similarity with immediate manager
Too many great engineers with lousy people skills promoted to management positions
Exec Mgmt team and Board reap financial benefits on the backs of employees (shorter option vesting periods)
Micromanagement at the highest levels (does the CEO really need to review every resume and offer?)
Believe too much the spin in their own press releases

Advice to Senior Management

Ditch the "mom and pop shop" management style and embrace the big-company approach to truly become an industry leader in the eyes of customers and competitors.

Hiring "the best of the best" required job offers that are second to none; you must also learn to retain the best of the best to be more competitive.

Marvell employees really do care about working smarter and want to help Marvell succeed.

Please conduct more open forums at satellite offices and really listen to the good, the bad, and the ugly....we all want us to be successful.

Pros

Nice campus. Centrally located. Good on-site cafeteria and gym. Good parking. Benefits including insurance were a bit worse than before but still decent

Cons

Very political environment. Promotions or when it comes to layoff time are totally based on your connection to the upper management and not by how good or bad you performed.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on bigger picture to have a broader vision of the company, instead of being a Marketing Manager of a certain product line or even a single device.

Pros

Gym and cafeteria on campus. Medical benifits are good.

Cons

Little personal growth, espetially cross disciplin

Advice to Senior Management

Should take some management traning. Standardize the process.

Pros

Good work
Good Infrastructure
Technically strong team

Cons

Bad management
less pay compared with competitors
more aggressive work load - need to handle 3 persons work by single person

Advice to Senior Management

Management need to plan activities

Pros

good location - easy to find other hardware jobs in Santa Clara
good cafe - food is not bad but getting worse...in 2011
gym... not that bad and friendly.

Cons

Low pay
No respect
No balance between work and life
Worst management - no respect, no fair, need to cover those seniors. no training...
Too political
don't stay too long, then it's hard to find your next job.

Advice to Senior Management

no comment. bad engineer managers kill Marvell.
bad benefit. A lot of engineers plan to leave if they can.

Pros

fitness center, good catefeteria, some evnets

Cons

Long hours, low salary, no growth opportunity

Advice to Senior Management

care about employee talent

Pros

Good experience. High learning because of high intensity job.

Cons

top down management with a lot of control exercised by the top boss.