SanDisk Employee Reviews about "senior management"

Pros

Growing market. Good overall company benefits and compensation. Strong sense of cultural responsibility at the corporate level.

Cons

Poor senior management--lots of indecision and inability to identify and execute on a vision

Pros

If everything works out well, the rotation program helps you maximize skillset building (mostly in Operations/Supply Chain/Analytical/Project Management). SanDisk, as a company, holds best-in-class talent and technology in the industry. (You should keep in mind that in terms of talent of its employees, a top company in Semiconductor is not comparable to a one in other emerging tech areas.) There are a few good people managers that you may be able to work for/with.

Cons

Company: - Culture: highly political and impersonal. The company only cares about cost/performance, rather than building the right company culture or promoting company values. A significant portion of people decisions were very poorly made, usually driven by political powers. - Irresponsible and weak Executive team: When Management makes wrong decisions, employees usually become the scapegoats. - Amazingly poor HR management: HR influence and control are almost non-existent. The company is highly hierarchical, which only encourages politics and slows down the decision-making process. The immigration team treats alien employees in the most unrespectful way. There are no truly functioning feedback loops within the company. - Diversity: SanDisk's understanding of diversity is very immature - it basically thinks that promoting diversity is equivalent to promoting its employees' home cultures. Black and Hispanic presences (esp. in mid to senior management) are extremely limited in the company. Different ethical groups are segregated rather than collaborative. Also, my perception is that the company does not care about LGBT diversity at all. Rotation Program: The rotation program openings are highly concentrated in the Planning organization, driven by business needs and cost considerations, rather than participants' growth opportunities. The rotation cycles are redundantly long. If your primary focus in your career is to grow, this may not be the best program to start with. Also, the promotion process within the program is broken, which has caused high turn-over historically.

Pros

Brand image of the company except that it is difficult to think on it. I cannot think of one

Cons

Bad work life balance. Compensation not equal to industry Politics and senior management at plant forces people to leave whom they dont like

Pros

Great workplace with nice people and good benefits. Financially it is a stable company with some great growth opportunites such as SSD market.

Cons

Senior management lacks direction Frequent re-orgs happen Most products are becoming commodity or getting behind the competition. There are no clear career paths. Shutdowns determine your holiday schedule, not you.

Pros

Pay structure is good, in good yard the bonus is sizable. Still a growing industry.

Cons

Politics at all levels. Focus on moving jobs from US to India, Israel and other her lower cost Asian countries. Lots of good talent has left the company. Very poor execution on projects, decision making is poor at executive management levels. Regular cancellation of projects and laying off entire teams only to bring back the project a year later. No accountability by senior management for these poor decisions. If senior executives don't have the accountability how can you expect it from the rest of the organization.

Pros

Good engineering and support staff. Salary OK, benefits average. Struggling to think of anything else positive.

Cons

The senior management of this company have no idea what they're doing. With shared ownership in a FAB, you have still managed to take the company nowhere, leaving a takeover by WD as the only alternative to closing down. You have layers of middle management that can barely cope, let alone manage. Unless you are of Indian ethnicity, forget working for this company, you will go nowhere due to the nepotism and favoritism exhibited by several management layers above you. Bought a true enterprise company (fusion-io) and tore the heart out of its enterprise sales force and then wondered why it failed to sell those enterprise products effectively. You are idiots. At a trade show in the summer, several times my colleagues and I heard delegates wandering past saying things like, 'why are they here, they make USB drives.' This sums it up, you're a consumer grade company with consumer grade products. The WD takeover is the best of a bad bunch of results, at least there won't be a slow painful death of the company that many fine people work for in return for very little acknowledgement.

Pros

The company is slightly old-school in its thinking compared to other companies in the Bay Area. But, it is still good for you if you want to work in semiconductor space. You can get the chance to work closely with senior management. There are not many hierarchies. Work life balance is good for the most part. You are not expected to be working on the weekend unless something urgent happens.

Cons

Great company to learn about operations and engineering. From a longer term perspective, semiconductor memory business is going to get commoditized. So the company as a whole is dependent on memory prices.

Pros

Benefits were decent and some of the workers that I met were pretty friendly. Good cafeteria and free breakfast on Friday.

Cons

Downside is most or all the senior management staff. There is no clear direction of where the company is heading and not sure if they have the experience to do otherwise. I would not recommend this job to any of my friends since I want to keep them as friends. Times are tought with the economy but there are decent jobs out there but SanDisk is not one of them.

Pros

The people are among the most talented I've ever worked with. The compensation package is good. SanDisk is trying to make the changes necessary to better manage the business.

Cons

A couple of the functional areas are weak, and this detracts from our potential. SanDisk senior management likes to micro-manage. The project portfolio management is the worst I've ever seen. SanDisk isn't organized to support our product lines and customers so there's a lot of internal conflict. Most of the items listed above result in employees having to work twice as hard and as long as necessary to get products out.

Pros

Stock volatility may bring some financial rewards. Near zero accountability allows several people to under deliver, so several people are satisfied with their position. This is a pro, because many employees have landed here looking for slower, stabler lives. SanDisk does have cutting edge technology and is a market leader. If you are fortunate enough to work with the few people that really contribute, it can be rewarding.

Cons

Near zero accountability, that allows you to under deliver, also means that the people that should be passed over for promotions are not, thereby diluting the rewards for your actions. Very poor product focus Poor senior management control of middle management. Persistent speculation/rumors of a bias towards certain kinds of employees has destroyed morale.