Very stable job. Good work-life balance. Good rewards for people who file patents. When work is not there, you can take long leaves.
No innovation.
All the good talent flew away, doing only incremental updates for multiple generations of chips.
The focus shifted from innovation to executing fast on incremental changes with accompanying politics.
Experience becomes stale with no challenges.
Lot of new hires are just an army of dead, little critical thinking, and having immense commitment.
Hikes and bonuses are pretty low.
Please recruit and reward talent. If we are continuously doing minor touchups, how will we improve talent and differentiate ourselves? Work culture has become like that of a call center, with less mobility and fewer chances to grow using just technical skills.
They had an aptitude round, and whoever cleared the aptitude needed to go through three further rounds. The questions asked were very tough.
1. Basics in logic design. 2. Aptitude. 3. Capability of coming up with an abstract-level solution for a problem.
It was a telephone interview with the hiring manager. It started with general "tell me about yourself" questions. Later, they explained more about the open position on hand. I had two rounds to confirm my skill level. Some preparation was needed on t
They had an aptitude round, and whoever cleared the aptitude needed to go through three further rounds. The questions asked were very tough.
1. Basics in logic design. 2. Aptitude. 3. Capability of coming up with an abstract-level solution for a problem.
It was a telephone interview with the hiring manager. It started with general "tell me about yourself" questions. Later, they explained more about the open position on hand. I had two rounds to confirm my skill level. Some preparation was needed on t