Pros: First to mention it is a nice working place, the campus is well planned. As an employee, here you can get free food and coffee, a big gym, a basketball court and a sand volleyball yard. Job pressure is depending on your department and your projects. As long as you can get the work done, your working schedule is quite flexible. If you are a person who can enjoy your work, you may find many interesting projects to work on. Colleagues are easy going, mostly.

Cons: Everything looks neutral, it is a common face in Bay Area, just like the others

Pros: Some very smart technical people are there.

Cons: I can't speak about the entire company because they have so many things going on there. So this is just my experience with my particular business unit. 1. Cost is king so if you are a manager most if not all of your technical team will be overseas. You will lose people. You will have people quit before they even start. It's not you, it's the culture there. You will also end up losing home time to having to have calls in the evening because of the time difference. Perhaps a lot of time. 2. The laptops they give you to do any actual work are actually quite cheap and horrible and way underpowered for doing anything. You'll learn to hate yours. See comment 1. 3. Everyone will say 'You should definitely be at this conference.' No one will pay for it. You won't go. 4. Everyone will say 'You are on the list to go to this conference.' You will work hard to get ready and get all of the necessary work done. Shortly before the conference, you will find out in a random way that you are in fact not going and that some new senior person is going instead. No one who is going will go to any of the technical sessions and so the whole point of having a technical conference is lost. 5. The heads of business units might have some vague idea about the market segment that you are trying to target, but not enough to where it really matters. If you try to educate them (because they hired you to be the expert and they keep reminding you that you're the expert -the only expert in fact because the former chief expert quit out of frustration ), they won't listen. They'll imagine that what you are doing is like trying to sell smart phones and it's 2005. It's not and it isn't and the comparison isn't even close to being apt. Since they're not listening, they're yelling at you a lot. You'll try to make the place better but won't succeed. 6. You'll get a new boss without ever having had the chance to interview them. They'll just show up one day. This should be a red flag to anyone about how much senior management trusts and values your opinion.

Pros: -Depending on team and manager, opportunities to do something innovative are plenty-Good communication / openness across disparate teams-Depending on team and manager, good work/life balance.-Last but not the least excellent food at discounted price

Cons: -A little weaker on the pay scale as compared to other tech giants (but have to remember this is primarily a semiconductor company and not a primary software company which can reap in huge profits from sale of software /ads)