Marvell Technology Reviews

Pros

Marvell is a great place for people with innovative minds. Lot s of opportunities.

Cons

It is going through growing pain...

Advice to Senior Management

It has grown to a size where more R&D can happen...

Pros

- New and exciting projects.
- Strong product base.

Cons

- No work & life balance.
- Management is very unfair and bias for promotion.
- Start up like environment with less compensation.
- Low salary package.

Advice to Senior Management

- Treat your employees with respect.
- Need more transperancy in management and need fairness for promotion. Give chance to well deserving employees who are hard working, honest and have great experience.
- Encourage employees for work & life balance.
- Pay industry standard compensation.

Pros

Good projects come along
People can be friendly
Good cafeteria
Company is doing well in recession
New products are successfull

Cons

Pay is miserable if your not from a top school with high gpa = we don't want you
Sometimes CEO will review resume of new hires and only look at school and gpa = micromanage
Mangers who mistreat and exploit employees for performance get promoted = no accountability

Advice to Senior Management

There not listening

Pros

Good learning opportunities. Lots of projects and work.

Cons

Lots of crap projects are done as customers are relatives of sr manangement. No revenue potential and wasting resources

Advice to Senior Management

stop micro management! start respecting your employees.

Pros

1. Free Gym
2. cheap food.

Cons

1. Salary well below standard
2. No growth
3. Never recognzied for anything u do.
4. Lot of politics and back stabbing. People would just take ur credit even if they do nothing.
5. All in all a place to avoid if possible..

Advice to Senior Management

Pay people what they deserve

Pros

Flexible working environment, good cafeteria

Cons

No emphasis on employee development.

Advice to Senior Management

Act like a big company, develop corporate culture and employee career development.

Pros

Knowledgeable people
Good communication between manager and myself
Good benefits: free food (they don't have that anymore, they still have food for a low price though...), gym, ESPP, stock options upon hire
Good salary raise

Cons

Sometimes, had to work long hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Having all hands meetings would be nice, in order for the employees to get a feel for what the status of the company is, and what other technologies are being developed.
A yearly bonus wouldn't hurt either :-)

Pros

it's good company. you get opportunities. growing compnay.
lot of new projects & ventures. it's a good career option for ne wgrads

Cons

too much work. will have to work over time.
it's sometimes like a sweatshop. micormanaged place.
it's good company. you get opportunities. growing compnay.

Advice to Senior Management

too much work. will have to work over time.
it's sometimes like a sweatshop. micormanaged place.
it's good company. you get opportunities. growing compnay.

Pros

Good rank and file employees that work hard with inadequate resources.
Sound technology company.
Good, market competitive benefits.
Managed costs well during economic turmoil.

Cons

No visible leadership from executive level.
Poor communication of strategic goals and objectives.
Limited pass downs of information.
Very little management accountability.
Weak over arching company culture; no clear identity or consistent values.
Poor corporate infrastructure (i.e., processes, systems, etc.) for a company of it's size.
Executive level management doesn't see any value in benchmarking best practices of other companies.
Limited career growth opportunities for most employees.
Marvell is still managed as if it were a 100 employee company versus a 5000+ employee company.

Advice to Senior Management

The CEO needs to focus on technology and making deals and hire someone to handle the day to day management of Marvell.
It's time to step aside so that Marvell can grow up/evolve.

Pros

You learn a lot by doing a lot. Heavy workload and extended work hours

Cons

no life, just work. no career advancement, unless you are selected few.

Advice to Senior Management

ok. but not great.