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    PMC-Sierra Reviews

    Updated September 19, 2018
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    PMC-Sierra Director, President, and CEO Gregory S. (Greg) Lang
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    • "slow career growth, long hours without acknowledgment or reward" (in 6 reviews)

    • "I would not prefer in this kind of working environment and would not recommend anyone" (in 6 reviews)

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    1. "Great place to learn"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Technically excellent people with engineering driven teams.
      Experienced at VLSI development using experts across geographic locations.
      Management is extremely technical having grown through from engineers.

      Cons

      Long hours and condensed schedules. Same as the rest of the industry. Not much work/life balance.

      Advice to Management

      Keep up the great work. Get a good market foothold in Flash and build it out into a core technology.

    2. "Has been good"

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      Current Employee - Architect in Sunnyvale, CA
      Current Employee - Architect in Sunnyvale, CA

      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

    3. "Senior Operations Manager"

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      Former Employee - Senior Operations Manager in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Senior Operations Manager in Sunnyvale, CA

      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.

    4. "Good team, bad managment"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I 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

    5. Helpful (1)

      "Good work environment, diverse product lines for a small company"

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      Former Employee - Firmware Design Engineer in Houston, TX
      Former Employee - Firmware Design Engineer in Houston, TX
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I 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.

    6. "Product Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Negative Outlook

      Pros

      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

    7. "Firmware Design Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Firmware Design Engineer in San Jose, CA
      Current Employee - Firmware Design Engineer in San Jose, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I 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

    8. "I enjoyed my experience"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      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.

    9. "Great company"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      Invests in employees, management is listening to employees

      Cons

      People are sometimes not accountable for failures

    10. "Good to work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at PMC-Sierra full-time

      Pros

      Benefits and work life balance

      Cons

      Sometimes management planning is not good

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