Microchip Technology Reviews
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- 5.0FEATURED REVIEWSep 13, 2023Senior Design Engineer IICurrent Employee, more than 5 years
Pros
- Excellent job security with a commitment to avoid lay-offs at all costs (including company-wide paycuts which hit harder for executives than regular employees) - Interesting technical work - Good advancement opportunities
Cons
- Low compensation compared to industry average
1 - 5.0Oct 17, 2023Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Love the company really values their employees very competent management.
Cons
Pay is a little lower than average
- 4.0Nov 29, 2023Principal Electrical EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 10 yearsAustin, TX
Pros
The corporate management is outstanding in the way they manage the company. Their loyalty to employees
Cons
Compensation is very low compared to other companies. Some middle-management or business unit management struggles with the upper company management culture.
- 4.0Nov 8, 2023Associate Field Applications EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearWestborough, MA
Pros
The managers are very flexible. They don't micromanage. The company has profit sharing. If you are in sales then you get extra profit sharing to compensate for the fact that you don't get commission. This is actually very nice because it allows for more collaboration.
Cons
The biggest con is that there is only 10 days of vacation when you first start. After two years, it increases by one day each year to a max of 20 days. This is ridiculously little amount of vacation.
- 5.0Aug 29, 2023Applications EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearAustin, TX
Pros
Most people are friendly and make serious effort to support one another when they get stuck. Always something new to work on (i.e., lots of learning). Great development programs & technical resources Laid back. People give each other space when they need it and you have agency to complete tasks by yourself. Solid team environment. No blaming people for honest mistakes.
Cons
Constantly new projects popping up. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you don't know how to manage time or prioritize what is important... you may find the workflow overbearing. There is the occasional dead weight coworker. Not many, but you will probably meet at least one somewhere in the organization. The employees tend to trend towards the older side so it is usually someone who is close to retirement. I personally think the great environment/culture makes up for this.
- 5.0Aug 27, 2023Equipment TechnicianCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearGresham, OR
Pros
Microchip is a great place to work. Well-positioned in a rapidly-growing industry, and good at maintaining a cozy and friendly company culture even as they make BILLIONS of dollars a year. I've worked for another giant in the industry (Intel), and Microchip is far less stressful and honestly pretty fun. While I can't speak for everyone, as far as I can tell, the culture seems pretty consistent across the departments. I work as an equipment technician and have enjoyed the team and culture greatly.
Cons
Benefits here are slightly worse than they were at Intel. I got almost double the PA there, and an extra week of vacation. Intel also had better health insurance and paid 100% of my college tuition to any school I wanted. (Microchip only pays about $6000 a year).
1 - 2.0Nov 10, 2023MarketingFormer Employee, more than 10 yearsChandler, AZ
Pros
A history of not laying of people and sharing the pain. Unless you were an employee in a fab.
Cons
Having opened the door wide to double ordering during the boom of the pandemic they are still loading up their customers and channels with piles of inventory. There is a brain drain leaving a vacuum. with micromanagement by insecure managers on the rise. People used to love their CEO now those close to the top work in fear of the current guy. Useless HR who just apply policies created by the corner office.
- 3.0Dec 2, 2023Client Engagement ManagerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearBoston, MA
Pros
Great people, transparent management, great culture
Cons
Standard lapses of any large corporation. Not everyone works very hard because of non commission style
- 2.0Nov 14, 2023Electrical Engineer InternCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearGresham, OR
Pros
- great gig if you like getting paid to sit in a cubicle doing nothing
Cons
- literally the lowest possible hourly pay that my internship organization allows. I'm basically working to barely survive in this area, just so I can keep going back to work. It's a waste of time. - was given borderline pointless projects - didn't learn anything
- 4.0Nov 10, 2023Production SpecialistCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearTempe, AZ
Pros
Night shift has a good work environment. Supervisors are very nice and laid back.
Cons
Pay isn't good. Night shift makes 18% and day shift makes 5%.
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Microchip Technology has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 2,027 reviews left anonymously by employees. 83% of employees would recommend working at Microchip Technology to a friend and 80% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.
83% of Microchip Technology employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Microchip Technology 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Microchip Technology to be benefits, career development, culture and the cons to be management, compensation.
