Microsemi Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Microsemi full-time

Pros – High caliber of technical personnel
Industry standard pay and benefits
Challenging technical work

Cons – Lack of vision. Business units don't identify markets and attack them. Instead, it is "what can we do to earn a buck?"
The company is a collection of pieces that operation independently. The IT systems of the various divisions don't even talk to each other.
IT is pretty much a hodge-podge mess.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a close look at the number of managers and layers in the organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Microsemi full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – If you know someone in higher-ups, you can arm-twist your way up. They have good market share in defence and aerospace due to legacy products.

Cons – Very poor communication between teams; Higher management gives complete control to middle level management to get results - Middle level management (especially system validation teams) harasses engineers. Offshore teams are a joke.

Advice to Senior Management – Please do not assume everything is alright just because middle-level managers get results.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Microsemi full-time for more than a year

Pros – good benefits, good company culture

Cons – the job was not of my personal interest

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Microsemi full-time for more than a year

Pros – laid back and easy going company

Cons – lot of documentation for projects

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Microsemi full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – good benefits, decent hours, decent pay

Cons – sending alot of jobs overseas, layoffs seem to happen

Advice to Senior Management – keep jobs here in us

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Microsemi full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – As long as your company is making 30+ % profit your safe.

Cons – Corporate have no regard for their employees...none whatsoever. Lay offs and plant closures are a daily occurrence.

Advice to Senior Management – Management? Oh, you mean the ones (including the CEO) who lie about having a degree?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Microsemi full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Flexible schedule Convenient location. A liberal expense account

Cons – The best way to get ahaed is kissing the CEOs butt. If you are good at that, you will go far.

If you want to get a real look at the company, tiake a look at the income statemnt. They like to tout increased revenue. Who cares. Look at the botom line numbers. They have been bleeding red for quite some time. Going back five years the stock has only budged to the negative.

This is a company of unfulfilled hope. I have no idea why any anayst would considerer this company anything other than a sell.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop acquisitions. Take a breather, and have a solid strategic business plane

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Microsemi full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great people to work with. Dedicated employees who work hard. The heartbeat of the company that keeps this company afloat.

Cons – Total lack of product understanding. Microsemi management is willing to shut down a site that has vary experienced people who produce technically difficult product and thinks it can save a dollar and ship production off shore or to a location that does not have the technical backround. Just like most big companies nowdays Microsemi is only concerned with higher profits at the expense of dedicated employees. I say good luck with continuing pleasing the customer.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees better and you will see the profits increase.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Microsemi

Pros – Good benefits, macro managing, nice employees, lots of freedom. Mostly, as long as you get your work done and come to work, they won't ding you.

Cons – Very difficult to have an issue brought up to management solved.
Poor planning by upper management turns into unreasonable workload on production floor.
Technical questions/ concerns often go unanswered.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Microsemi

Pros – The good aspect of working here is there is no shortage of challenges. Something new everyday, new requests from customers. And the compensation, currently is very fair.

Cons – The downside would be the lack of fore site from management in regards to consistent work loads and (WIP) work going through the line- Work In Progress-

Advice to Senior Management – I would advise management (VP level) a 2 prong approach. 1st : Stop manipulating work flow to boost quarterly numbers and stick to a consistent plan and 2nd: Come up with a strategic plan to boost quarterly earnings via new sales and marketing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend