Zoran Reviews

Pros

Good people, nice environment, interesting stuff to work on

Cons

Never had long term plan, always work on "current" issue, constant interrupts.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to take a risk and invest in order to win

Pros

Free drinks everyday. Free donuts week, Free birthday cake every month.
Easy to commute, many smart and hardworking people.
Flexible hours. Some come to work at 6am and some work until 10pm.

Cons

Zoran was not in the right decision in the past few years. It is now part of CSR.
It is a little stressful near product release.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in the right area and make the company profitable.
After acquisition by CSR, DTV and some lost-making business were cut.
This is painful but necessary.

Pros

Consumer Electronics
All silicon discipline
leading in Camera and printer SW
Very good place for new Eng.
Gain experience in

Cons

Very low margins on the products
Act as Start up
Complicated organization
Long hours.

Advice to Senior Management

try to focus for long therm

Pros

a good place for new graduate to learn latest technology

Cons

insufficient training and lack of long term plan

Advice to Senior Management

change before you have to

Pros

Free drinks, free bagel once a week

Cons

People work like dogs, some from 7am to 8pm and then work at home.
Zoran is a not profitable companies for several years and finally doomed in 2011.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect people, they have lives.

Pros

decent environment had some fun

Cons

no bathrooms accessible when you really need them

Pros

World wide operations, good employee benefits especially vacation days, good talented people, highly competitive consumer electronics business, innovative and creative, early adopter of advanced technologies,

Cons

Resources are limited, burn out very quickly, appreciation of workers perfunctorily, over commitment, needs to get out of start up mode, needs to upgrade program management

Advice to Senior Management

Objectives can be set high but management also needs to recognize and assign appropriate resources to do a good job. Resources stretched too thin and weary, innovation and creativity suffers.

Pros

start up atmosphere with good information sharing. people are given a lot of latitude in their work as long as objectives are met.

Cons

Resourcing is very limited resulting in people working very long hours which people gladly do but project satisfaction is not achieved a lot of times due to delays also caused by the same.

Advice to Senior Management

Project planning, and resourcing of projects can be improved to make not just customers happy but also employees happy which will result even better timely products.

Pros

Get to work on different cutting edge technologies.

Cons

Always busy with hardly any down time.

Pros

Good team members along with good compensation.

Cons

Upper management is very biased towards Isreal site. No consideration for good work, but only beating for bad work. Marketing has no vision of product cycle and unrealistic schedule.

Advice to Senior Management

Give some clear visibility to engineers and be less biased.