Verigy Reviews

Pros

Freedom and flexibility , global view

Cons

Decision making ahold be faster

Advice to Senior Management

Need to make decision quick and encourage employees to work with confidence and to know how to work efficient internally

Pros

Great technology
Great customers
Great People!
Innovated products

Cons

Internal Tools need to be updated to best serve day to day activities
medical benefits could be improved

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your people
more promotion from within
keep the employes happy

Pros

I joined Agilent in 2000 just after the HP spun off the test business to Agilent. Agilent was a Great company to work for with opportunities for advancement and recognition for once hard work. However in 2006 when Agilent spun off the Semiconductor Test business to Verigy the company’s business dynamics changed dramatically. Customer and employee focus was gone as well as investing in tomorrow.

Cons

Verigy is a small company with no real focus on investing in its future or employees. They have a very limited focus on their major customers with little to no focus on satisfying smaller customer base.

Advice to Senior Management

Too much focus on the short term results with no focus on long term growth objectives.

Pros

The company was a great concept in the beginning, they did a valiant job to stand alone, increase their portfolio, and markets. They are only a one trick pony and will merger with another company.

Cons

Financial performance is poor, bad product choices, politics and poor communication from senior managers. The morale is very low and folks are leaving in droves.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire the poor performing senior managers that got the company in the bad shape it is in. Keep the innovative core and merge to become healthy again.

Pros

Great people to work with: smart, hardworking, helpful. Lean organization, bureaucracy does not get in way of day to day tasks.

Cons

Have to work insane hours sometimes to make up for lack of resources. Opaque upper management. Not alot of opportunity for career mobility.

Pros

Leading edge technology
Very smart, very senior people
Reasonable, though not great, compensation package
Support for creative ideas
Great customers

Cons

Upper management is completely focused on the investment community. (This may be changing as Jorge takes charge)
Lack of communication from the executive team, even more, a lack of understanding of the employee situation
The above two result in a lack of trust between the employees and the management

Pros

Many bright people from the HP/Agilent days, but the overall trend was to layoff everyone from that period

Cons

terrible senior management that only worried about themselves. Destroyed all good culture

Advice to Senior Management

restore the HP values and come out from your hiding

Pros

Great products and management but the downturn was difficult

Cons

Tough and cyclical market but we are as good if not better than the competition

Advice to Senior Management

Be more available to each site

Pros

Good size for a company doing both HW & SW. Amazing product covered from DC to Optical techs.
Real international company with all regions and countries about semi industry.
Working time is very flexible!

Cons

Company has no real"Value and Mission" instilled. :Innovation" is only one slogan that only R&D can get some small piece rewards, new ideas often stopped by management.
Company is small and position is limited, promotion is really hard to get.
headquarter has different opinion with Germany site (biggest one) and this caused a lot compromise about product schedule and resource arrangement which is a big waste for company future.
Management react very slowly for changes and conservative about rewards, promotion and headcount reduction...during the downturn, employee suffered a lot by salary reduction, mandatory FTO taken, organization reconstruction, asking leave...but no management come out to undertake the risk and sacrifice the loss; no transparent communication has done.
Salary is really poor compared to similar company and business!

Advice to Senior Management

To be open to all employee, especially regarding career growth and promotions, and the great work needs to be reflected with incoming, get stars shining rather than let them down, otherwise, the best people will leave, it is happening now!

Pros

The culture from HP originally is trust and respect. These are still existing now. So the environment is indeed sharing and open.

Cons

Management team hasn't realized that it is not HP anymore. They should act more fast and more efficiency in such a small company.

Advice to Senior Management

There is no new culture developing since Verigy was spined off from Agilent. It should be less politics and more action.