Sandisk

The NAND department at least gave some free dinner during tapeout time.

Other engineering departments could not care less if you are working late, there is no incentive, and management is very pushy to get jobs done ASAP.

Mediocre salary and no clear direction; we have had so many reorgs (2-3) and layoffs in the past few years.

Rule of thumb is to expect layoffs at least once a year, followed by a new round of hirings.

I guess they want to trim excess fat, but they do it often and the employees lose their morale.

Management made some effort to diversify and moved away from the commodity market, but the new products are an utter failure (like the Sansa Shaker) or mediocre (like the SlotRadio).

They need to do a better job in screening and testing new products to make sure they do not fail in the market.