OmniVision Technologies Reviews

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

Pros – Good salary, flexible work schedule

Cons – too many products are shipped out every month, does not have that much time on R&D

Advice to Senior Management – Too conservative

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

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies full-time

Pros – ESPP, 401k and benefits are good
stable job
Godd people to work with

Cons – Raises aren't really that good

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

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Stable job
Work/life balance is reasonable
Always have new stuff to learn, not bored with your work.

Cons – Company culture needs to be improved

Advice to Senior Management – Stop arrogance, treat your staff with respect.

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies full-time

Pros – Pay well including the stock benefits
you get exposed to a broad range of work projects

Cons – Group interaction and project management is confusing

Advice to Senior Management – Get fresh management ideas and care regulate group cooperation

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

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

Pros – Simple management and easy going culture around

Cons – more vision needed for management and busiess execution

Advice to Senior Management – see above comments

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -The ESPP plan is set up to very easily to be buying stock for 50% of its current value. This only works with the stock being volatile, so you're hoping for the company to tank every few years.
-Once you prove yourself as competent, you can successfully interact with other people in the company outside of your group. Until then, you're basically on the outside of the club.
-Schedules aren't too strict (except when business is bad and the CEO stands in the lobby seeing who comes in when and giving them grief; Not exaggerating, this actually happens) and you can actually use your vacation

Cons – -The company is run very cheaply. Everything basically has to go through the CTO
-Talent is very spotty, some good people, more really bad people, and a bunch of people in the lower to middle range
-Company is absurd with getting information from other groups. Have heard many times, "that's proprietary"
-The company keeps a lot of the people who actually do work overseas in China or Taiwan. This makes things very difficult for those who don't speak Mandarin to get information, especially because most of the overseas "co-workers" won't give you the time of day.

Advice to Senior Management – -Drop the nepotism. Seriously.
-Broaden your horizons for people to hire. Bringing everyone here on an H1-B visa or picking them from Aptina/Micron doesn't really bring in the kind of outside thinking that would actually help the company.
-Purge the people that don't actually do anything. Have the Bob's go through and say "What is it you say you do here?" You'll get rid of a bunch of dead weight

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

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies

Pros – Many projects to do. You will not be bored. Salary is in-line with industry. Company is fairly generous with bonuses and stock grants for a publicly-traded firm.

Cons – Projects poorly planned so regularly miss schedule. They will often try to salvage things by throwing more engineers at the job but the result will be 50-50.

Advice to Senior Management – Could use less bureaucracy and paranoia about employees stealing from you.

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies

Pros – 1. A company with great potential.
2. Good pay.
3. Good opportunity for professional growth.
4. Flexible working hours.

Cons – It's a fast-paced and heavy workload company. On the other hand, it's the reason of why it's success..

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies

Pros – Digital imaging is a growing industry.

Cons – Senior Management does not communicate decisions to employees effectively. Very poor communication between groups.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat employees with respect and they will respect you back.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at OmniVision Technologies

Pros – This is a company with bright future

Cons – company culture could be improved

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend