National Semiconductor Reviews

Former Employee – worked at National Semiconductor full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The people were always the best part.
The two weeks off at Christmas was everyone's favorite perk.

Cons – No longer exists, part of TI.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – very good company benefits and working environment.

Cons – I don't think there is any cons on this company. I worked happiliy in this company

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

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

Pros – Great company to work for straight of college. A lot of smart people who are willing to help. Diverse work force gives equal opportunity to everyone.

Cons – opportunities to grow financially and career wise are very limited. the projects could be redundant if you are in the commodity chips like Power management.

Advice to Senior Management – expose your application engineers to real applications and have them involved in product definition. have some sort of structured mentoring for new hires.

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

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

Pros – Great people to work with

Cons – was aquired by another company

Advice to Senior Management – none

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

Former Employee – worked at National Semiconductor full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – This is a company that lets you explore markets and allows you to use your strenghts to expand compay product markets.

Cons – The company gives you a lot of flexibility that you want to ensure you meet your objectives in addition to the other areas you investigate for development.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to support employee career goals

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

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

Pros – Committed to train employees for the future.

Cons – Company moved out of state and out of the country.

Advice to Senior Management – Great Management Team, planned the move of the plant well. Helped employees with resources to find future employment once our scheduled job closed. They invested lots of time getting employees ready for a career inside or outside of the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Semiconductor full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Professional and Knowledgeable Individuals
Employee Recognition Programs
Gives Back to Community
Good Work-Life Balance

Cons – Company was acquired which resulted in massive layoff of good employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Upper Management should not have sold the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at National Semiconductor

Pros – Very good benefits, good working atmosphere, considerate and fair treatment of employees

Cons – The only thing I could think of is the fact that there were frequent layoffs

Advice to Senior Management – The company has been sold to Texas Instruments, just hope some of NSC culture will survive!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at National Semiconductor

Pros – 1) Good work life balance
2) Robust Santa Clara campus with cafe, park, gym, etc.
3) Some of the best co-workers around

Cons – 1) Stagnant company
2) Didn't know which direction it wants to go in
3) Not many job / career growth opportunities

Advice to Senior Management – Needed to make a thoughtful review of the business it wanted to be in - solar, semiconductor or something else?

Current Employee – been working at National Semiconductor

Pros – The salary and benefits were good. The locations is good. Was doing an interesting work.good benefit, flexible hours, using latest tool

Cons – Do not see the advancement in the company. Very empty offices. Was a little boring while working for this company.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't need people creating power point presentations or timeliness. Please, supply us with the tools to do our jobs (testers, handlers) and we just might make a deadline.