Marvell Technology Reviews in Santa Clara, CA

Pros

very supportive - growth opportunity is good - salary is decent

Cons

- work/life balance is not good
- very tedious work

Advice to Senior Management

more receptive and better work/life balance

Pros

- Pretty nice facilities
- Good food - they're generous with the subsidies
- Good benefits
- Ping pong tournament

Cons

- No communication from upper management
- Processes (or lack thereof) from hell
- Incompetent managers
- Lack of diversity

Advice to Senior Management

You're a great engineer, but step aside and let someone who knows how to run a business manage this one.

Pros

-- Good infrastructure
-- Fitness center, cafe, basket ball, table tennis, volleyball in campus
-- Work life balance is good, not expected to work on weekends

Cons

-- No visibility of roadmaps
-- Health benefits not at par with other companies
-- No visibility of growth/career progression
-- Limited customers

Pros

gym, parking, security , dont have to be sharp,

Cons

family managed company, least professionalism, rude IT folks. ethnic bias in hiring

Advice to Senior Management

Just get pros to run the company, Sir and Madam should do what they know best

Pros

Some good people. Gym onsite, cafeteria is reasonable (I've been at places with free food; I actually prefer places with small reasonable fees).

Cons

Some spectacularly clueless engineers and managers. If you don't speak Mandarin you might be left out of a lot. Screwing around with ESPP and trying to spin it as mildly positive or aligning with other companies is not appreciated. IT response time can be measured by moon phases.

Advice to Senior Management

Management thinks they are listening, but they are really not. They walk around with an air of "you don't get it, we do, we know more than you."

Pros

Good food, health insurance and state of the art technology

Cons

Hopeless salary, no appreciation for good work, political, CEO is an idiot, company run by family, bad benefits. Guys, let me just keep it plain and simple. If you are looking for a job change, please don't bother coming to this place.

Pros

Breakfirst and lunch is pretty good.
Gym is pretty good.
No perceived discrimination to minorities, because every one is Asian.

Cons

Not in par methodology wise.
Labor intensive and inefficient.
"Appreciation" for your hardwork, extra contribution is limited to a "thank you" only.
Corporate profit sharing is a joke.
Hardly any info about corporate is shared to employee.
HR recruiters hehave like used car dealer.
Manager doesn't respect your time, your rights.
You don't have to be qulified for your position or even have to do anything at work if you happen to go to the same church as you manager, yet lots of credit magically coming your way.

Advice to Senior Management

Share profit, respect employee's family time, contain nepotism in hiring or promotion practice, allow time for employee to maintain their professional skills.

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

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.