Xilinx Reviews

Pros

Good silicon technology and good food in the cafeteria. Hahaha

Cons

No longer employee or customer friendly
Totally absorbed by the database full of inaccurate data

Advice to Senior Management

They all need to fired

Pros

Good benefits, nice coworkers, good working conditions, ok working hours
All that remains from previous management: but for how long

Cons

Inept management, just follows whoever sounds the most convincing (and most of the time that's not the most competent).
Only looking at saving money. Replacing the experienced people leaving with kids fresh of Indian universities.
As a consequence no more innovation: our main competitor who was way behind us has now taken the lead technologically and the gap is increasing.
More good people are leaving as it is obvious that the management is only counting dollars but has no idea where to go.
To be promoted you need to be friends with the right people now, does not matter what you do, just be convincing.
It's sad to see such a good company with good people, great technology, loosing all that and become a place you go just to get your paycheck while the incompetents good talkers get huge bonuses in reward to be yes men to management.

Advice to Senior Management

Judge on the facts, not on the talks.
Or listen to the real workers, not the managers/VP that say everything is all right while it is obvious that something is broken.
We are way behind our competitor now. You're nor hiring competent people now, only the cheapest engineers that you can find in India & US.
Maybe the margins are getting better on the short term, but we're loosing big market shares
I guess you are just interested in your big bonuses now..

Pros

Reasonable benefits (a remnant from the good times)
The technology is exciting and (for now) Xilinx is the market leader
Individual teams have some terrific people

Cons

In many cases, the employee relationship with senior management is very dysfunctional
Way too many directors/senior directors/VPs brought in from outside
No clear direction and ownership is I'll defined
Projects seem to be over managed until deadlines are missed, then it's a frenzy

Advice to Senior Management

Xilinx cleaned ranks at the lower level and bloated senior management. That killed moral. It's hard to see how this organization can significantly improve without a reorg at the senior level. If not Moshe, then a lot of other senior directors and VPs should be let go.

Pros

Work is not so hectic. Job is stable

Cons

Not much room to grow

Advice to Senior Management

Not enough communication between management and worker

Pros

A spirited start-up culture even after the company was well past the start-up phase. Unfortunately, Moshe promised Wim to preserve it, got the job, then did the opposite.

Cons

Very arrogant marketing management who have become an internal sales team selling to arrogant exec management who aren't savvy enough to realize the disconnect between them and the customers. Altera has a much better formula.

Advice to Senior Management

Flip the pyramid back the way Bernie had it, and get the companies money back for the logo you changed.

Pros

Great technology getting even better

Cons

Misunderstood management and strategy... Doing some big things to really get ahead and solve customer problems

Advice to Senior Management

Just explain it all better

Pros

I enjoy the friendly crowd of co-workers.

Cons

Xilinx current has mandatory work on weekends

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the former EDA clowns

Pros

When Xilinx gets a better senior management team, maybe they will climb out of the hole that they are in today.

Cons

The current senior management is terrible. Where is Wim and Bernie when you need them? 2009, 2010 was like a huge experiment to Moshe and his cronies. We were kicking Altera's tail until they current management took over.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to accept the fact that Altera now has surpassed Xilinx. The customers that Xilinx lost will likely very difficult to win back. From this point forward, if Moshe and company don't start listening to suggestions, the board will eventually ask them to start packing.

Pros

Latest technology. Highly profitable company and comparativley stable employment.
Colleagues are usually nice to work with.

Cons

Bad employment review process, become worse with new managment. Mismanaged the last few product cycles of past 4-5years and losing market share.
Limited opportunity for career growth unless you can talk BS with mid- and upper-level managemtn.
Too many senior people not doing anything and executives lack of communication and outsourcoing all new jobs to India and Singapore.

Advice to Senior Management

Do evaluation of how the rank employees feel and try to do a better job of determining deadlines and project goals.

Pros

Free time to do whatever I want. Flexible working schedule.

Cons

Little to none growth opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Clear vision about the projects.