Cypress Semiconductor Employee Reviews about "management"

Pros

direct and allowed to take charge at any level

Cons

direct and high expectations of management

Pros

- Great work force with excellent talent - Ideal for beginning the career

Cons

- Management was highly centralized and rigid.

Pros

A lot of dedicated and smart coworkers. Professional workplace. Well paid jobs. Near zero politics.

Cons

Horrible management at executive level. Management lacks planning and they expect their reports to cover for their lack of planning. It is common for an executive to call you 6:00 PM on Friday with a large chunk of work that must be done in next 24 hours. There goes your plan for Friday evening dinner with family.

Pros

Flexible work hours. Not always overloaded with work.

Cons

Bad work culture. Poor and pathetic management.

Pros

if you work in the fab then you might still have a job, if not then it's a crap shoot.

Cons

after the merger (takeover) morale is at a all time low. people are sad and unsure of the future and middle management doesn't seem to have any answers.

Pros

Good products to work on Great communication from company Your ideas and suggestions welcome and will be rewarded as long as there are in line with company's roadmap Great oppurtunities for employee training Great first and second tier managementGreat first and second tier managementGreat first and second tier management

Cons

Salaries don't match that of competition Engineering experience, specially design experience and ideas not valued Not many other companies in the area Employee moral low, because of various factors High level management too products and company centric than employee centric

Pros

Excellent learning systems. Solid new product development process. Projects that start make it to production. Good recognition for creating production parts.

Cons

Upper management is not customer and systems focused; most energy is spent looking inside the company. Main result is that project launch late and therefore need huge teams to meet very aggressive cycle times. There is a lot of management interference during projects.

Pros

Meritocracy Driven. The employees take pride in the culture that was built over the years and the focus on analytical driven decision making.

Cons

A lot of adhoc work comes by from senior management and everything has to be done immediately. This is primarily due to lack of planning from the senior management.

Pros

A great place to start a career in. A start here gets you ready for pretty much any challenge. Decent benefits. Very good systems - they have a structure in place for anything you can think of. Some extremely smart people work here - so a lot can be learnt. In comparison to other places, there are way fewer passengers (Collecting a pay check only for being present) - so the concept of having to motivate your co-workers doesn't have to happen often.

Cons

Where do I begin? The distinction between management and individual contributors is made apparent (rather rudely) to every one at the outset. If you are on the wrong side of that equation (individual contributor) you will be judged freely without any regard to how much the judge really knows in the matter being discussed. Inexplicably, some managers who have a history of treating their employees very poorly will never be shown the door while other very talented employees will be allowed to leave with no fuss. Thirdly, the same great systems that they have in place becomes a hiding place for some managers/directors (who make a living out of rejecting memos/specs for paltry reasons) and a severe inhibitor for any kind of progress. In other words, the systems make for busy work. The management admits to the existence of this problem but really very little actually gets done to solve this problem.