PMC-Sierra Reviews

Pros

Access to leading edge Semiconductor products. Excellent Datacenter solutions.

Cons

Too much revenue with top customer can sometimes limit engagement with additional tier 2 and 3 customers.

Pros

Good working culture Innovation, Work life balance

Cons

Salary less than market Less RSU

Pros

Benefits are good and competitive

Cons

nothing really great place to work

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.

Pros

They have a Quality Technical team and proects

Cons

It suffers from Poor Managment

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.