International Rectifier Reviews

Pros

Advancement possibilities and good pay

Cons

Long hours and no holiday pay

Pros

Nice remote location, travel against traffic from Boston

Cons

As hard as it is to hire and relocate engineers, this place drain you of your knowledge and dump you within a couple years. Always reactive, always behind and constantly firefighting.

Pros

Good benefit, polite co-workers, opportunity for growth

Cons

no hybrid work schedule offer

Pros

Location was a plus. Programs were exciting

Cons

Upper management very political and dishonest. Lacking leadership

Pros

Challenging tasks to work on

Cons

None I can think of

Pros

The place has an environment that allows novice engineers to learn with some experienced engineers. Some of the managers are receptive and listen. The life/work balance is good. If you manage your workload and get your job done, nobody will bother you. The division possesses key players with solid expertise in the field and a well established mature process. Training is available to selected employees. Some people are friendly and helpful.

Cons

There is an obsession with documentation which delays, frustrates and burdens. Some people just don't want to do their job or help, most notably IT. Some managers are too aggressive and not in the right direction. New ideas are not implemented because there is a process in place that cannot change. Some people that do not show abilities or are too argumentative are counterproductive to their colleagues and the division. Some managers will deflect assignments in their area of expertise. If you work too hard, you will not necessarily get patted on the back. Schedules and assignments are modified and what you have accomplished is useless at that point. Upper management does not have a clue what it takes to get stuff done because it doesn't come to see how it's done. All they care about is forecasts and numbers.

Pros

Everyone here is very friendly and the engineers are always willing to help each other out. Not a stressful job where everyone is very understanding.

Cons

Wish pay was just a little bit more.

Pros

1. Best TEACH/ LEARN ENVIRONMENT: You can learn a great deal from your principle colleagues who are actually willing to help 2. Great FAMILY: work environment. Many of them have been there in the 80s if not earlier. It is a family 3. When you add the top two here it makes it the best team I've worked. It was these two that turned my head away from all the cons.

Cons

Agreed with other comments listed 1. OBSESSION with documentation that engineers can loose focus on what's important. If your great with documentation then this is the job for you! Engineers are responsible for so much no wonder project lead times take so long; which is why there are so many mistakes caught later. They need to hire more support! If they only had a bigger facility. ( documentation 70% and engineering 15-30%) 2. BURDEN They say "1+1=3" which is right, you've burned out your employees. Efficient Performance and product can only be achieved if you spend more on growing the company. Hire more people!! Stop hiring upper managers and playing musical chairs. You've put this burden that "engineers are the responsible owner" for the product which is cop out for upper management to do there job + hiring more staff to help. Let managers do their job and hire more staff for support.

Pros

Until recently, company had good job & project mobility ... a willingness to let (even encourage) employees try new projects and grow professionally.

Cons

Senior management had lost their way and their judgement became increasingly dubious, in the last few years ... culminating in the ouster of virtually the entire executive suite by late 2007. Many other talented managers and employees left during tumultuous 2007. New CEO in 2008, brings in a completely new team, and of course everything before him was 'wrong'. Lots of turmoil, unless you are one of the lucky few who stands to profit from the chaos. (ie, FOO - Friend Of Oleg). Former colleagues tell me the organization has gotten much more compartmentalized (silos), and that information and communications are far more limited & restrictive under the new regime. Starting in the early 2000s, Company became very stingy with stock options. Nowadays, options are limited to a handful of VPs, board of directors, CEO, and the innermost executive suite. Middle managers and individual contributors are left out.

Pros

Compared to every other place I have worked, including with non-technical assignments, IR was by far the most enjoyable from the standpoint of relationships with other employees. People actually assisted each other to perform their tasks. Now that Infineon has taken over IR, I hope that this will continue.

Cons

This was a low-paying contract position, and with my health insurance premiums getting ever higher, I really wanted to become a direct employee. However, IR seems to not want to hire American citizens. I didn't have a background in power electronics or semiconductor device design, but I would have been willing to work as an Engineering Technician - which I was as a contractor - just to get the benefits and have some feeling of stability. But it never happened and my contract ended a short time ago.