PMC-Sierra Reviews
Updated May 14, 2019
Found 185 reviews
"Independent,Autonomous working environment promotes individual growth" (in 21 reviews)
"Provides a great work-life balance and opportunity for career development" (in 14 reviews)
"slow career growth, long hours without acknowledgment or reward" (in 6 reviews)
"Management issues, work life balance can be better" (in 6 reviews)
"Excellent technolgy and team atmosphere"
StarStarStarStarStarRecommendsApproves of CEOI worked at PMC-Sierra full-time for more than 3 years
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.
PMC-Sierra2019-05-14"Great place to work"
StarStarStarStarStarI worked at PMC-Sierra full-time
Pros
Benefits are good and competitive
Cons
nothing really great place to work
PMC-Sierra2018-10-12"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-Sierra2017-01-13"Senior Operations Manager"
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I worked at PMC-Sierra full-time for 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-Sierra2016-10-30"Good team, bad managment"
StarStarStarStarStarI worked at PMC-Sierra full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
They have a Quality Technical team and proects
Cons
It suffers from Poor Managment
PMC-Sierra2016-09-07- Helpful (1)
"Good work environment, diverse product lines for a small company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at PMC-Sierra full-time for 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...
Show MorePMC-Sierra2016-07-23 "Product Engineer"
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Negative OutlookI worked at PMC-Sierra
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
PMC-Sierra2016-07-04"Firmware Design Engineer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at PMC-Sierra for less than a year
Pros
Work environment, managers, co-workers, Pay, benefits
Cons
no lunch and no transportation
Advice to Management
nothing
PMC-Sierra2016-04-22"I enjoyed my experience"
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RecommendsNo opinion of CEOI worked at PMC-Sierra
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.
PMC-Sierra2016-04-12"Great company"
StarStarStarStarStarI worked at PMC-Sierra
Pros
Invests in employees, management is listening to employees
Cons
People are sometimes not accountable for failures
PMC-Sierra2016-03-23