Xilinx Reviews in Dublin, Ireland Area

Pros

The people are generally very nice to work with
Flexible hours

Cons

Average pay
Cost cutting even when making massive profits
Losing market share and design wins
iterative product releases
Ridiculous performance assessment

Advice to Senior Management

Let lots of excellent staff go from Ireland and U.S to be replaced with "cheaper" labour in APAC. Direction is short term making money but long term losing business...just ask Huawei

Pros

Great compensation package and flexible working arrangements. Xilinx typically pay more than comparable companies (perhaps without realising it). Workers generally are supported in working from home and Xilinx has many remote workers. Many office based workers will typically work from home one day per week.

Cons

The company is driven by politics and fueled by anxiety. The company puts great energy and effort into a show of care for employees through various performance management systems, employee surveys and improvement initiatives. The reality is that employees feel under constant severe scrutiny, and rightly because they are under that scrutiny. Management will be swift in cutting, it's a culture of shoot first and ask questions later.

Advice to Senior Management

The world is moving towards inspirational leadership, respect for human dignity, openness and honesty, you need to get with the program.

Pros

Xilinx has some very bright dedicated people. The compensation package is OK but not great compared with similar companies and the facilties including canteen are very good.

Cons

In my opinion, Xilinx has lost its way. It used to be an excellent company to work for, but not any longer. Staff morale is very poor and with frequency PDP and quarterly goal reviews, there is a lot of pressure put on employees.I used to be excited about the work I was doing any didn't mind putting in the hours, but now I couldn't care less. You are no sooner out of one PDP review when you begin thinking about the next. From speaking to colleagues, this would be the prevailing view among staff in the organisation.

The workload had dramatically increased in the last few years as the remaining people are forced to do the jobs of those who have been made redundant. Much of this work has moved offshore to save costs, but we are now seeing it being taken back again, due to inferior quality. I guess lower wages and tax breaks made it look a smart strategy at one time, but now it has come back to bite them. so much for the MBA school of management. At present, cost cutting is king, so I can't see things changing in the near time, but we know the results of this will eventually rear its ugly head.

Advice to Senior Management

You have a lot of money in the bank. Use some of it to treat your remaining employees properly. Give us the time and resources to complete projects properly and cut out a lot of the review procedures. The people you have left are very talented and have delivered the goods for Xilinx many times in the past. Continual pennypinching and outsourcing will not get you the quality you desire. You have seen that already.

Pros

Interesting Technology, some great people. Used to be inspiring.

Cons

Zero opportunity to change career direction within the company

Advice to Senior Management

If simplifying and improving product quality is rewarded by redundancy then clearly our product offering will remain complex and difficult to use.

Pros

good benefits and has looked after engineers in the past.

Cons

Xilinx pretends to be inclusive while the flat management structure and Management centric decisions, lack of delegation and overall squandering of engineering talent makes Xilinx less than inclusive.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to limit the companys portfolio so that some of the promises are actually possible. Learn ow to manage projects. Stop hiring shotgun managers based on limited pedegree. Look at steady product managers. Knock heads together to use xilinx better. Trust your employees. Stop managers making engineering decisions based on limited field and/or employee involvement..

Pros

not much, benefits are reasonable and the lunchtime classes in the on site gym are good. lots of parking available!

Cons

The senior management. They have changed to company to one where people are no longer respected. Moshe believes he is above the rest of us, quarterly addresses are no longer directed to employees, but are videos of his presentations to "senior leaders" and the rest of us are allowed to look in the window

Advice to Senior Management

Leave now. Xilinx was a good company which treated employees with respect, where as the cadence gang just view us as disposable resources

Pros

- Externally competitive salary
- Flexible working conditions
- Good people
- Excellent gym and canteen
- Excellent benefits
- Good bonuses

Cons

- Morale in the toilet
- Lack of transparency
- Lack of training
- No career opportunities
- Have to work like a dog to get boneses
- Cost cutting driven
- Middle management is a joke

Advice to Senior Management

Retain those who excel, don't treat them with disrespect.

Pros

Great people, great technology, excellent work ethic among staff.

Cons

Xilinx was a great place to work and can still be. The management seem intent on improving the financial standing of the company by attacking costs alone. They dont seem to to want to (or certainly are reluctant to communicate to the employees) grow revenues.

The downstream communication is non-existent except for slapping people. team leads are telling junior employees not to take up responsibility as it is all pain and no gain. Careers have been stalled. People work in fear or just waiting for the next redundancy package as there is no certainty whatsoever.

The open-door policy initiated by Wim has been replaced by a dictatorship that is autocratic.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate communicate communicate to remove the fears within the organisation. Also, stop asking people to give up their lives for Xilinx when all we get in return is fear, poor reviews and petty reasons for bad reviews.

Pros

When I joined Xilinx it was a great place to work. Not just because of my immediate colleagues but because of the social concience the place had. Out former site manager really believed in the staff and felt a responsibility to the local neighbourhood. Charity work was encouraged and recognised. The social scene within the company really seemed like a community. Employees were just below customers in terms of importance.

Cons

Unfortunately the company has fallen into the hands of people bent on personal gain. Long term prospects for the company are being sacrificed so that senior management can meet their hort to mid-term bonus criteria. Projects are failing EVERYWHERE because we have been on a hiring freeze for years with the work load being increased constantly. Our new CEO will not even visit the sites anymore. He gives directives from behind closed doors and cowardly lets others deliver the news of his incompetence to the staff that built the company to what it was just a few years ago. Excecution of new products is failing and being covered up. This is happening because of the ceasless outsourcing of development work. Xilinx is fast becoming a reseller of other company's products.

Advice to Senior Management

You are very quickly dismantling an industry leader. You announce that you want to reach $10 billion dollars when we have yet to reach $2 billion. The staff no longer work for the benefit of Xilinx. People in every site worldwide are now working for themselves. The company is going down the tubes. Think about the devastation being wreaked on hundreds of families just to pay your bonus. Fumbling in a greasy till, adding the halfpence to the pence.

Pros

Xilinx used to be be a great place to work. Great colleagues, supportive management style, lots of training opportunities, development and promotion opportunities.

Cons

Significant deterioration in morale in recent years. Not just linked to the recession. Xilinx has transitioned from being a very human company to work for to a faceless organisation leadership who implement a slash and burn mentality. Xilinx is losing a lot of very good people who have been with the company and are now leaving disillusioned.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiding behing local management, If the message is bad, at least show leadership and deliver the message yourselves.