Great place to work, but very demanding. You've gotta run full throttle all the time
Great place to work, but very demanding. You've gotta run full throttle all the time
- No office politics, no inter-departmental BS – just focus on getting the job done.
- People are capable and highly focused, with no slackers acting as dead weight.
- Focal reviews are very honest, with no beating around the bush. If you suck, you are told so and how to fix it.
- Management at all levels is approachable and down to earth.
- All first and second-tier managers are hands-on, not paper pushers.
- If there is a serious issue, everyone jumps on board to help, and no one points fingers about who caused the issue.
- Talking with co-workers over lunch in the company cafeteria offers an opportunity to bond and just chill for 30 minutes.
- Nowhere else can you tell your boss that he's full of s**t while debating a technical issue, then 30 minutes later, both of you are having lunch with fellow co-workers, hearing about funny stories from their weekend. No one takes anything personally, and most people are passionate about doing the “right thing” to solve an issue.
- Your boss will always work harder and longer than you. Walking out of a lab bleary-eyed at 11:00 PM, you send an email to your boss; before you get your coat on, there's already an email reply from him, and your desk phone is ringing.
- Strong team effort. Outside of the Marine Corps, I don't know any place else where everyone in a group will go the extra step to help other members of the team without a manager being involved.
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Schedules and workload are very demanding; it's always a struggle to maintain work/home balance.
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We need understanding spouses who will put up with either always being on VPN or working late at the office.
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Email is crushing; the sheer volume is crazy.
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Most of the year, you are blacked out from selling or buying any shares in the company. The stock always takes irrational wild gyrations during blackout periods, and you can't take advantage of it. But that's the downside of having truly honest and informative company meetings.
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Obsession with cost control gets silly sometimes.
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More realistic schedules: either get more resources or scale back projects.
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Need more thermal chambers. Every engineering team (desktop graphics/mobile graphics/MCP/etc.) needs thermal chambers, and haggling during crunch time doesn't always work.
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Need more lab space: buy, build, or rent more.
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Choose between "growing a business unit" or "shooting for 40% margin". You can't get high margin without economy of scale, and you don't get economy of scale unless the business unit is well out of the "growing" phase.
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People on the critical path all the time are burning out; need to grow bench depth in engineering.
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Skip the annual "family day" event and give everyone a mandatory day off. Literally take down the server farm and shut off the power to the campus to force everyone to take time off.
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Chips coming back days prior to the Christmas shutdown cause lots of collateral damage in family life.
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