Oppressive Environment
Oppressive Environment
- Food was good, but quality declined after it became no longer free
- Good medical insurance coverage compared to similar plans from other companies
- Great stock performance for the past two years. That was the reason compensation was on par with the basic salaries you can get elsewhere (I'm not so sure this is a plus...)
- Tonnes of work for drones, but nothing to learn.
- The rest of the industry has moved on to newer tools and standards, Marvell hasn't
- Uncompetitive compensation
- No career advancement opportunities
- Lower management will promote whoever they like best personally. If you are not from the same country as your manager, don't expect any career opportunities.
- Micro-management practiced and encouraged
- Management will "suggest" re-arrangements to your personal life at home so you can stay in the office and work overtime as much as possible
- Have formally written out career paths for your employees
- Give reasonably updated resources to your employees to do their everyday work
- Not everything down to a new keyboard requires VP approval. VPs should have better things to do. If they don't, then you don't really need them.
- Not every new hire requires CEO approval, especially junior and senior level engineers. A CEO should have better things to do. If you don't, well ...
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Marvell Technology Interview Experiences
ASIC Design Engineer
Apply online and after several weeks, I got phone interview. It is about ASIC design/verification. My background is more focused on verification of microprocessors, FPGA. Not very familiar with ASIC flow, so it is very important for background match.
ASIC Design Engineer
The first round was a phone interview of around 45 minutes. It was focused entirely on linear pipeline and Out of Order Pipeline principles. The second round was a face to face interview at Santa Clara. There were 4.5hrs of interview (45 minutes per
ASIC Design Engineer
First of all, the recruiter just reach me through the email. And then we went through one-round technical phone interview, including asking me something about the ASIC flow, Verilog. About two weeks later, I got a notification that I passed the phone
ASIC Design Engineer
Santa Clara, CaliforniaNovember 1, 2014Apply online and after several weeks, I got phone interview. It is about ASIC design/verification. My background is more focused on verification of microprocessors, FPGA. Not very familiar with ASIC flow, so it is very important for background match.
ASIC Design Engineer
Santa Clara, CaliforniaSeptember 1, 2015The first round was a phone interview of around 45 minutes. It was focused entirely on linear pipeline and Out of Order Pipeline principles. The second round was a face to face interview at Santa Clara. There were 4.5hrs of interview (45 minutes per
ASIC Design Engineer
Santa Clara, CaliforniaSeptember 1, 2011First of all, the recruiter just reach me through the email. And then we went through one-round technical phone interview, including asking me something about the ASIC flow, Verilog. About two weeks later, I got a notification that I passed the phone
