Analog Devices reviews

Although I had opportunities to move around and try new things, I was ultimately locked into one role because there was no career path available for me to follow. There is very little mobility, from my experience, to move upward and grow in the company. I spent nearly a decade doing the same job, with the same job title, despite consistently getting stellar performance reviews. This is why I eventually decided to leave the company. On an unrelated note, the compensation is simply not competitive. Although I received many stock options in the early years of my employment, the stock stagnated by the time they had vested and they were ultimately worth nothing by the time I decided to leave. While I was still an employee, I interviewed and received job offers at a few competitors just to see what else was out there, and most of the offers had salaries ranging between 30% and 50% more than my salary at the time, which was very tempting. Most of my coworkers I know who left the company were rewarded with significant salary increases at their new employers. I enjoyed the work, so I stuck around... but I could have easily left at any time to get a 50% raise at a competitor.

Lots of cancelled projects and layoffs, they don't give raises consistently. Very low to none for RSUs below E-13. Very poor place to develop cutting edge skills. Very poor and mediocre experience. If you are a family person makes it impossible to live in a good school district and afford a family. Odds of lay offs are higher than the odds of promotion for senior people. The company wont pay to hire top talent. They hire the person who will accept the least pay and expect that person to perform on the 95th percentile. It never works out with these hires projects get delayed and cancelled with reorgs and layoffs and middle management gets re-assigned to another product line and the same situation repeats. Very political place. There is a silly shrine for Ray Stata in one building, to make up for cancelled projects and limited to no RSUs.