Maxim Integrated Products Reviews

Pros

Great products, lots of oppurtunity to grow, great company performance, a promise of cultural change, world class new building (2012)

Cons

Some senior management has very poor people skills, inconsistent to the culture the CEO or other executives are promoting, negative reinforcement consistent in my department

Advice to Senior Management

check that all departments are motivating good people to stay and avoid political agenda in managing people. This drives good people away from Maxim

Pros

Good technical knowledge. Able to get designs to market and see results of your work. Flexible holiday schedules. Ability to move to different design centers around the country if you desire.

Cons

Upper management rules by whim and engenders fear. Panic mode set in for many groups. Limited cooperation between business units. No motivation for stock appreciation. Designers expected to do design, product engineering, production support, customer support, with little support. Remote design sites shut down suddenly for no apparent reason, and goon squads sent in to manage dismissal.

Advice to Senior Management

You are running on a skeleton crew, and many people are ready to burn out. You need to show some loyalty to the employees who have committed to your company.

Pros

Some of the groups are good and aggressive

Cons

Some biased decisions are made in certain groups

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

Maxim gives many opportunities to meet various IP blocks

Cons

Some business units seem to be working improperly

Pros

Benefit package is decent with bonus.

Cons

No balance between work and personal life. It's all work work work.
Lack of promotion and recognition for all the work employees put in.
Working from home is frown upon.
The culture here is very disturbing.

Advice to Senior Management

Show more recognition and appreciation to your employees. Know that there's life outside of work.
Promote your employees more often not waiting until they are about to leave the company.
Improve the culture/environment of the workplace.

Pros

technology oriented fast pace enviroment

Cons

a real grind with no support

Advice to Senior Management

delegate authority

Pros

1. Good salary
2. (Possibly) Good work for freshers

Cons

This applies only to my group, don't know about others:
1. Managers have poor leadership skills
2. Heavily dependent on US team for directions - can get frustrating
3. Most of the actual work happens in the US, India only gets miniscule tasks
4. Mostly testing and customer support work in India
5. Uninteresting work atmosphere

Advice to Senior Management

1. Salary is not the only factor that keeps employees motivated. Employees need to grow in their career as well.
2. Don't just promote good engineers to managerial positions. Managers need to have more than just engineering skills to lead a team/project.
3. Improve the company work culture/environment

Pros

Strong balance sheet. Good stock plans

Cons

Incompetent mg. Not pro to employees

Advice to Senior Management

Improve working environment

Pros

Good healthcare & insurance benefit.
Work with talented engineers.
Potential growth and #1 analog/mixed signal company.

Cons

Poor management structure, but a change is on the way, hopefully.

Pros

Pay and bonus are ok. But only if you are hired into Maxim as SMTS from another company. Internal promotions are lower even though internally promoted engineers have more experience and knowledge. It takes a SMTS a year to come up to speed. Some time never coming up to speed.

Cons

Allot of work with unrealistic expectation to complete that work. Not much time to innovate, just time to get the work load complete. After 4-5 projects (5-7 years) that work gets really repetitive.

Advice to Senior Management

Maxim keeps losing employees because of low pay and to large of work load. You need to hire more employees to distribute the workload.