Pros

Day to day people are great, most have been with the company a long time and are very competent. Each have a strong desire to solve problems in a team environment. Projects are interesting, technical challenges are reasonable. Heated exchanges are usually not tolerated, and lead to career suicide.

Cons

As most of the posts indicate, the current management structure only understands ASIC design, and doesn't understand FPGA design. Walls are being torn down without realizing why they were put up in the first place. The CEO could be replaced with a script, this is an interim job on his way to another. Goals are being confused with strategy, as middle managers do not have support to implement solutions.

Advice to Senior Management

Just move on to your next job.

Pros

Friends and coworkers. The technology is very interesting. There is a history of excellence. The future is bright for this industry.

Cons

Cost is important, but the new CEO and his team will sacrifice most of the previous company values under the false impression that it doesn't matter how the workforce feels about teamwork and the sheer enjoyment of working at an employee-focused company

Advice to Senior Management

Stop worrying about stock price in the near term. The legacy you leave at Xilinx in your relatively short term here won't be about SOX compliance and cost cutting. It will be whether you leave a company of talent and innovation that rises above transient market activity.

Pros

good industry, world wide exposure, good products, good people to work with on a day to day basis. good work life balance

Cons

lots of room for improvement everywhere, need to do the best you can with what you have, little new investment in people

Advice to Senior Management

Start investing for the future of the Company stop the here and now actions

Pros

There was growth in revenue and within the employees
Company management once cared for the product, the customers and the employees
The benefits were great, the stock actually went up

Cons

That guy from Cadence took over as CEO and within 4 months, he turned the company upside down, bringing in his "yes" exec staff
Layoffs - Xilinx avoided them in dot com bust, but has now had 2 in 2 years: need I say more
So, exactly what is the company's strategic direction? Does anyone know or care?

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out that people want to care about what they are working on
Communicate what the strategy is
Take care of your most valuable asset - the human capital - or it will walk right out the door

Pros

The pay and benefits are competitive. There are lots of bright, friendly people in the engineering positions. The balance between work and the rest of your life is reasonable.

Cons

Xilinx was a great company to work for under the leadership of Wim Roelandts. The emplloyees felt that the senior management cared about them and were not purely looking at the profits. All that has changed under the new regime. Something is seriously wrong when the software division is placed under the direction of four different VPs in a little over one year. Many excellent people have voluntarily left or been discarded.

Advice to Senior Management

Xilinx needs to return to its core values, placing people above profits. Cutting vital engineering jobs is a short-sighted strategy that only serves to demoralize the workforce and weaken the products.

Pros

Flexible hours and will support time-off when needed
Work with leading edge technology
Accessiblity to technical documents and training material
Decent HR support infrastructure for employee needs

Cons

Xilinx has lost its way over the last few years. Where are the values that built this company? Instead of accountability, there is finger pointing. Job security is the number one focus of most employees and this is not an environment that promotes teamwork. There are a lot of extremely smart people at this company, but there appears to be a void in leadership. A lack of trust in management is a consistent theme I get when I communicate with others in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Put the focus back into the people that built this company. Cost-cutting can be expected, but there needs to be better communication and explanation for the directions that the company is taking.

Pros

Good employees, who try hard to be positive and still work hard despite top down changing forces
within the company.

Cons

Fast getting rid of American culture of Innovation and employee value for decreased wages
and sweatshop mentality of overseas sites. Very little consideration for those whos hard work
keep the company going.

Advice to Senior Management

There are those in mid management who are trying harder to make a name for themselves than rational good decision making for the benefit of all.

Pros

Great co-workers; good benefits; decent compensation; good location; newer facilities were great, older ones not all so great; some great new systems...

Cons

For 7 years Xilinx was an awesome place to work. Then in 2008 the decline began with the influx of the Cadence Cronies and other members of the upper levels of management. Talk about have no clue....

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the new management team, bring back the good experienced employees they dumped, and try again. Maybe Wim would consider coming backi.

Pros

Still one of the best cultures of any company in the valley
The basic value proposition of the technology is good and getting better
The company is successful financially
New management had a lot to do to bring Xilinx into alignment with market realities. This was really tough medicine for the company to swal
There seems to be a renewed focus on applications and customers

Cons

Definitely more work and more scrutiny on everything
People remember fondly and wish for the utopia of the late 90s
Slow growth is getting people down but this is true elsewhere in the valley and in the US

Advice to Senior Management

The growth strategy might need to be more revolutionary than evolutionary and this might take a huge investment...Be ready to step up when that idea presents itself

Pros

flexible working hours. Good working team. if you like work on fpga it is the best company in this area.

Cons

you will not be appreciated. if they do not want to give promotion, they wil l use some stupid excuse such you do not know python (even your job not require it, even most of thepeople does not know it).

Advice to Senior Management

beause of the latest layoff, there is a ob security issue. People are scared whether they need to work or they need to start to find another jobs