Smart Team, Challenging Balance
Smart Team, Challenging Balance
Great opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies.
Opportunity to work with some incredibly smart people.
Good mentors to help you grow professionally (depending on your team/division).
Good benefits.
Decent salary.
Better than average benefits.
Work/Life balance could be an issue, particularly during "bringups" and other shipment deadlines.
Upper management can sometimes be disconnected from reality.
Career growth is slower in remote sites compared to San Diego.
For Software Engineers, your skillset might stagnate if you are not careful about choosing your work.
Decisions can be political, affecting mostly Sr. Staff and above.
- Work on employee morale (beyond namesake efforts such as climate surveys).
- Ensure a fair review process, with some type of "ombudsman" to redress employee issues. Although systems are in place now, most employees do not trust them.
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Staff Engineer
I applied for the position online. The process took two months. It began with a phone interview, followed by an on-site interview. There were five interviewers, and I spoke with them one by one. They were quite friendly, and most questions were of
Staff Engineer
Had three rounds of interviews back to back, followed by a hiring manager interview. Mostly covered CPU architecture and programming skills. Topics included CPU instruction sets and interrupts (types of interrupts, etc.). Programming was in C, and
Staff Engineer
I met the phone screener in person for coffee rather than on the phone. He approved and said he'd bring me in for a full on-site interview. About two weeks later, I went to San Diego for the position, which was located either in San Diego or Silicon
Staff Engineer
San Diego, California, United StatesMay 1, 2012I applied for the position online. The process took two months. It began with a phone interview, followed by an on-site interview. There were five interviewers, and I spoke with them one by one. They were quite friendly, and most questions were of
Staff Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaFebruary 1, 2016Had three rounds of interviews back to back, followed by a hiring manager interview. Mostly covered CPU architecture and programming skills. Topics included CPU instruction sets and interrupts (types of interrupts, etc.). Programming was in C, and
Staff Engineer
San Diego, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2016I met the phone screener in person for coffee rather than on the phone. He approved and said he'd bring me in for a full on-site interview. About two weeks later, I went to San Diego for the position, which was located either in San Diego or Silicon
