QLogic Reviews

I have been working at QLogic

Pros – QLogic is a leader in fibre channel HBAs and has a secure market share. The wages and benefits are competitive.

Cons – The work load can be very stressful due to staffing in certain departments. Also there are silos within the company and different ways of doing things which makes getting work done difficult at times.

Advice to Senior Management – Empower your employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at QLogic

Pros – Exciting, cutting edge technologies. Good salaries and benefits. Employees are generally the best in their individual fields. High degree of employee autonomy allowed and expected.

Cons – High performance expectations can be exhausting, particularly if employee is new to field. Minimal training provided, employees expected to hit the ground running. Can be overly frugal regarding internal technology acquisition.

I worked at QLogic

Pros – Decent salary and benefits. Decent work environment,

Cons – Lousy & complacent top management. Most of them are old-timers with fat RSU / stock positions and are content to draw their salary & bonus and cash in their stock. No real drive to put the company on a growth path again.
Unlikely to grow any time soon without some radical changes
Too complacent on the cash cow of FC products
No new design wins

Advice to Senior Management – Don't look at Emulex and think you are winning.
Where is the innovation ? New products are not derived completely by looking at specs put together by existing customers. You need to invest in your own ideas and develop some differentiation.

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

I worked at QLogic full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – There are some great, hard-working people. It is a great location and beautiful facility, close to restaurants and the beach. QLogic has a great market niche, great designers, and is a technology leader.

Cons – The company has been managed by tight wads, more concerned about share holders than their employees. They tend not to be customer-focused which is frustrating to some employees. Like alot of American companies today, the CEO was formerly the CFO, focused on the bottom-line.

Advice to Senior Management – Place a hgher value on customer relationships and treating employees like you care about them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at QLogic full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Products are leading edge technology

Cons – Schedules really compressed and not realistic

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at QLogic full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – ok benefits, good environment, good location

Cons – below average salary, small culture, generally poor management

Advice to Senior Management – Redo employee review compensation policies. Employee ratings and job grading are too broad when determining increases and incentives.

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

I have been working at QLogic full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great technology
Interesting work content
Good people
Lots of growth opportunities

Cons – Long hours.
Efforts not always organized well.

Advice to Senior Management – Get better at project/program managment.

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

I worked at QLogic

Pros – Many talented and hardworking co-workers. Presently A leader in the narrow field they serve. Older products (8G FC and less) work very well. Older technology business is stable resulting in a profitable company.

Cons – Possibly the worst work environment one can imagine. Dictatorship like management. YOur hard work is never good enough. 60+ hours/week are always expected. Stingy benefits, some have been removed during downturn, and never reinstated even though the company is very profitable. Very low morale, the company has no regard for employee welfare.

Advice to Senior Management – The business will soon be a commodity. Employee retention will be difficult.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at QLogic

Pros – Interesting technology. High performance stuff.

Cons – We always worked 1/2 days there -- 8am until 8pm. Month in, month out. I've never been at a place where I knew so few people and everyone was on their own. Silent layoffs happening all around you on an ongoing basis made for a climate of fear.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at QLogic

Pros – Well respected engineering talent and class-leading technology portfolio.
Operates in a duopoly
Financially stable
Not a huge company, but has a lot of resources
Conservative management style, fairly predictable

Cons – Because is so conservative, tends to miss or delay opportunities to enter or commit to new markets.
For sales people, is not a place you can get much upside. Quotas are adjusted hourly. (kidding...but they do adjust them during the year, which is dirty pool)
Entrenched management and board leaves little room for internal advancement "thru the ranks"
Will be ruthless in cutting entire divisions or culling lots of employees in re-organizations, often spurred only by the arrival of a new executive who changed a bunch of stuff, then doesn't stick around anyway - disrupting the lives of dozens of employees for no reason.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward loyal employees
Don't let new executives "put their fingerprints" on the organization unless they have a commitment (including penalty) to be there long term. Why should they get to fire dozens of loyal hardworking people just so they can bring in all their hangers-on from past jobs, then bail when things don't magically get better (like they had over-promised)?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend