Xilinx Reviews

Pros

- market and technology leader
- good profit margin sector
- not the best but market fair compensation

Cons

- moving jobs abroad to 3rd world
- management care more about Wall Street than main streets

Pros

Technology and Market Leader
Good financial results
The future looks good for FPGAs
Results oriented work environment
Decent compensation package

Cons

Quality and frequency of management communication to the employees needs to improve
Focal review needs to drop forced curve fitting

Advice to Senior Management

Improve Communication

Pros

Talented people
Teamwork at working level

Cons

Politics
Silo structure
Too many non-working meetings

Advice to Senior Management

Loosen up

Pros

Great products and technology.
Many talented and friendly employees.
Promotes work-life balance.
Depending on where you live, the unusual location can make for a good commute traveling opposite the rush-hour traffic.

Cons

Employees treated as disposable tools by the Gavrielov regime; there has been a never-ending series of layoffs/RIFs throughout the company since their arrival three years ago. Cuts made without regard for employee talent and contribution. Steadily moving engineering, manufacturing, and support functions to India and Singapore.
Stingy with raises and promotions; employees should just be grateful that they have a job.
Lot's of politics and a passive-aggressive environment.
Headquarters are in San Jose, but location feels disconnected from Silicon Valley.

Advice to Senior Management

Take the time to learn who really gets the work done.

Pros

Working on leading product and technology. Company provide reasonalable benefits and compensations.

Cons

Workload sometimme can be extreme heavy and time pressure.

Pros

Overall Good Benefit
Reasonable management team
Key technology in industry
Flexible working hours
Upper management is willing to take new challenge

Cons

Pay too much attention to product but less to people
No proper channel to allow employee to express each opinion
Not care about employee career advancement
Old Xilinx team are over conservative and not willing to take new challenge

Advice to Senior Management

One successful product only gives a few years revenue. Successful team is really key to company. Care more about employee.

Pros

Leading technology and FPGA product company

Cons

Treat employees like they are lucky they have a job in the Bay Area. Use looming threat of moving your job offshore to emphasize the point.
Pay for performance just means more politics and promotes a cut-throat mentality.
Mor

Advice to Senior Management

Fire yourselves

Pros

Generally good people to work with, some exceptions like any place.

Company is usually well focused for its market niche, what's next goals are clear and usually on target . Rivalry with competitors intense but not nasty (on Xilinx's part at least)

Cons

FPGAs have passed their growth period, with the generally down economy its hard to tell whether they will still be a strong company 10 years from now or fade to be another former leading technology company. But fiscal and people management has been good throughout their history so we can hope.

Advice to Senior Management

Looking back to the heydey of LSI Logic and Moshe's time there vs where it is today can we expect a better future for Xilinx? At least LSI still exists unlike many of its contemporaries. That said, Moshe was a highlight of good management style at LSI at a time good and bad VPs came and went way too often. Xilinx is lucky to have him.

Pros

products with good technology that are practical in the marketplace

Cons

too many policies, procedure, red tape. Management favors little known policies or make excuses to keep employees from promotion, or prevent expense report reimbursements for litigimate charges employees incur!

Advice to Senior Management

Promote the "middle class" employees, recognize them, praise them sometimes. Reimburse litigimate expenses incurred or it creates undue & unplanned hardships on the employess.

Pros

Extraordinarily talented engineering staff. Cutting edge technology keeps things very interesting. Peer interactions are amicable and new ideas are well received.

Cons

Nowhere even close the same place it was years ago. "New" management has turned Xilinx culture to a numbers game and too much has been off shored leading to morale issues in all departments. Too much following of a single competitor limits creativity.