ON Semiconductor Reviews

Pros

Large enough to provide a good support system, but not so large that it turns into a slow moving bureaucracy. Coworkers are friendly, helpful and committed to good quality work.

Cons

Career advancement is not clear cut. Lot of it is relationship based.

Pros

Good facility, good people, relaxed atmosphere.

Cons

Too sensitive to economic conditions, and is tough if your trying to get in from the bottom. There's a lot of temp hires then layoffs due to low starts, happens just about every year.

Advice to Senior Management

Need better bonus program, and need more face time with the bottom half.

Pros

Working with highly experienced people. Opportunity to learn new stuff.

Cons

No benefits like bonuses and stock plans for new grads. Growth in the organization is very slow. Working on very old technologies.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is good.

Pros

-Great place to build resume
-Good salary, decent benefits
-Knowledgeable coworkers and staff
-Opportunities to act in several managerial and analyst roles
-Gave me a decent severance package after laying me off, even though my tenure was only 5 months

Cons

-Absolutely no job security, no tenure is safe
-Layoffs are very frequent
-Almost every new hire I met quit after a few months
-Low morale, somewhat depressing atmosphere
-Constant griping and complaining behind managers' backs, especially from engineers
-Bureaucracy is pretty rampant, especially with frequent organizational shakeups
-Rivalry within parts of the company, especially due to cultural differences
-Strong push to offshore analyst and manager positions to Shenzhen, including the one I held.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more lean with hiring workforces, don't hire and layoff in such a short cycle. Focus on making a less mercenary work culture.

Pros

The work is fast paced and interesting. The pay is competitive, and the offered benefits are really good.

Cons

Management is several departments are very poor. This company often promotes based on seniority, not by any measurable leadership abilities.
For example:My manager is really bad at all things related to leadership, but really knows how to do the individual jobs of his team.

Advice to Senior Management

Start hiring managers to lead groups, it will make a difference!

Pros

The manager of the technical team I worked on was terrific.

Cons

Work environment somewhat depressing. Think Joe vs. the Volcano.

Pros

very relax and managements are very nice. They will work with you to become successful in your career. They can be both mentors and your managers.

Cons

It is very hard to understand the acronyms that they talk about in meetings. You are on your own in figuring out what they mean.

Pros

Intern work load can be a lot, but overall its easy. You never end up taking your work home which is nice. You get the chance to network a lot and during the summer, there is a big emphasis on making sure that interns have fun as there are lots of activities and events going on then.

Cons

If you want a more demanding experience as an intern, intern somewhere else. I personally feel as if I was rarely given any real responsibility and I don't like that. Communication can be good at times, but overall, if unless you're a manager, you tend to be left in the dark. Very siloed mentality overall exists.

Advice to Senior Management

Re-implement the rotational programs! Just be smart about it and actually do them for longer than 6 months if costs are a concern! Most companies attract and retain talent through such programs and they last 18 months per rotation usually. ON is losing out on talented individuals who aren't getting the opportunities to have the kind of experiences that they need coming straight out of college.

Pros

flexible timings,
work gets done at a leisurely pace - no pressure,
no hierarchy - managers and sub-ordinates get along like friends,
free lunch, tea/coffee, gym and TT/carrom.

Cons

Its just like a govt. office - laid back attitude, laid back atmosphere, below par industry salaries and benefits, opportunities for career growth and learning minimal, employees remain idle for greater part of the year, no onsite opportunity till retirement for all employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the employees work on latest technology projects, keep them occupied for most part of the year, pay industry standard salaries and benefits, provide onsite opportunities or atleast trainings.

Pros

Many of the people in various departments and business units are well intentioned and work well together.

Cons

Procurement department management drives away staff and insults vendors. Teaming with internal customers is strongly discouraged. And HR doesn't seem to care.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house in the Procurement department's management. ON should function as a team, and it hasn't been for awhile now.