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Gregory S. (Greg) Lang
71 Ratings
Pros
work-life balance can be pretty good once you figure out which deadlines are actually important (in 13 reviews)
Great company, great salary and benefits, good people work there (in 11 reviews)
Cons
slow career growth, long hours without acknowledgment or reward (in 5 reviews)
Career development and continuous learning opportunities also fell by the wayside (in 3 reviews)
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"Has been good"
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I have been working at PMC-Sierra full-time
Pros
Benefits were good. can't complain
Cons
Sold before realizing the full potential of its products. lead to little dilution of its profits.
Advice to Management
look after employees
PMC-Sierra 2017-01-13 11:02 PST![PMC-Sierra Logo]()
"Senior Operations Manager"
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I worked at PMC-Sierra full-time (More than 8 years)
Pros
Good Benefits, good teams in the Sunnyvale facility.
Cons
PMC was acquired by Microsemi. Lacked communication from upper management. Very little was done to motivate employees.
PMC-Sierra 2016-10-30 13:11 PDT![PMC-Sierra Logo]()
"Good team, bad managment"
StarStarStarStarStarI worked at PMC-Sierra full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
They have a Quality Technical team and proects
Cons
It suffers from Poor Managment
PMC-Sierra 2016-09-07 13:44 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Good work environment, diverse product lines for a small company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at PMC-Sierra full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Unlike many other companies, the CEO and upper management actually understand the product catalog and can have a meaningful technical conversation. This generally leads to better high-level decisions about product lines and R&D planning.
Cons
The Houston office is small with not a lot of room for growth. If you want long-term career advancement options as an engineer, you'd be better off in one of the offices in California or British Columbia.
Product engineering schedules are usually set by marketing/sales teams, and rarely have any connection to reality (e.g. only scheduling a week for a month-long hardware prototype test process). The result is an environment where everyone is running around putting out proverbial fires and there's no time to improve processes and do things the right way.PMC-Sierra 2016-07-22 18:25 PDT![PMC-Sierra Logo]()
"Product Engineer"
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Negative OutlookPros
Smart people, nice office, Starbucks Coffee within the office
Cons
Employees lacking passion, food in the cafeteria is expensive and not good
Advice to Management
Make the work place exciting
PMC-Sierra 2016-07-04 14:19 PDT![PMC-Sierra Logo]()
"Firmware Design Engineer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at PMC-Sierra (Less than a year)
Pros
Work environment, managers, co-workers, Pay, benefits
Cons
no lunch and no transportation
Advice to Management
nothing
PMC-Sierra 2016-04-21 21:24 PDT![PMC-Sierra Logo]()
"I enjoyed my experience"
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Good overall benefits package. Lots of technology, challenging work. Teams are committed to success. Good opportunities for motivated employees. First and second line managers care.
Cons
Like a lot of tech companies there was quite a bit of schedule erosion due to constant feature creep from customers. Some sacrifice of long term commitment for short term gains.
Advice to Management
Enforce more rigid customer relations. Stay committed to long term goals and opportunity markets.
PMC-Sierra 2016-04-12 09:29 PDT![PMC-Sierra Logo]()
"Great company"
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Invests in employees, management is listening to employees
Cons
People are sometimes not accountable for failures
PMC-Sierra 2016-03-23 11:03 PDT![PMC-Sierra Logo]()
"Good to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at PMC-Sierra full-time
Pros
Benefits and work life balance
Cons
Sometimes management planning is not good
PMC-Sierra 2016-03-11 23:37 PSTHelpful (1)
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"Okay but in transition"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at PMC-Sierra full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Great team within my organization and also a flexibility to let me do what is needed to get the work done.
Cons
In the midst of a takeover and so it has become difficult to get everyone to focus. This is just the nature of the beast.
Advice to Management
I think we just need to get through being bought and then it will settle down. Ultimately time will tell if that is the case.
PMC-Sierra 2016-01-26 23:05 PST
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