STMicroelectronics Reviews

Pros

1. Good work life balance.
2. Good team work.
3. State of the art technology.

Cons

1. Slow to change.
2. Compensation and benefits not top of the class.
3. Hierarchical

Advice to Senior Management

NA

Pros

cool, good process and work flow, well defned policies

Cons

Deadlines are not defined well

Advice to Senior Management

salary is less as compare to competitors

Pros

modern tools to work., good training conditions, good communication from the management

Cons

No carrer path, if you do the same job and you are bored after 6 years : nobody cares.

Advice to Senior Management

improve the job rotation inside ST

Pros

It is a good family-friendly place to work. The people are great and you get opportunity to work new and cutting-edge hardware.
This is a large company with many sites throughout the world and plenty of opportunity work with and travel to colleagues abroad.

Cons

Software engineering follows an outdated "waterfall" methodology, which is better suited to hardware development.
The large organisation can lead to frustrating bureaucracy and poor communication

Pros

good work life balance good facilities to employees

Cons

management though indifferent to employees

Advice to Senior Management

less flexibility in policies , support lateral movement and different job functions

Pros

ST is less structured than some multinationals so there are real opportunities to develop, grow and learn. I had little experience in my field when I joined but my passion and motivation were enough to get me a senior position in which I could prove my worth.

Cons

Just as you can benefit from having a great manager you can find yourself under a bad one and get no support from the company. There are politics as in all big companies so you have to stay on the right side of the right people.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to employee sentiment and desire to be included and addressed by top management. Communication is key and so is recognition and tangible reward, not just for the high potentials. Poor treatment of suppliers for cost cutting purposes is highly detrimental to company reputation.

Pros

As a European company, their benefits are outstanding compared to many others. They still offer a pension plan, offer more vacation days that most, and their 401k match is not only excellent but is also fully vested from day one.

Cons

ST has been steadily decreasing their presence in the United States starting with the closure of both of their large manufacturing facilities in Dallas and Phoenix followed by the closure of several smaller design centers. Not much prospect for future growth within the US.

Pros

Good technology, good products and work life balance.

Cons

Limited scope for career growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Transparency in promotions is required.

Pros

Very friendly, supporting colleagues
Allowed to explore things (and sometimes to try them live as well)
You will not be sacked very easily
If you want peace of mind without doing anything, it is the right place

Cons

No recognition of whatever you do
Very poor pay scale. It is easy to get into the company with inflated pay scale. But once in, salary increment is just a peanut.
Promotion? Don't ever think about it.
Unless you are an annoyer you get nothing in return.

Pros

1.) Excellent work environment
2.) Some of the best HR practices I have seen in the industry. BTW, I am not the only one who swears by it. A bunch of my friends from ST who are working in other orgs. regularly praise the HR practices at ST.
3.) Prompt recognition for excellence

Cons

1.) I think it is more of an industry issue that there is absence of structured product management practices which was evident at ST also.