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Cypress Semiconductor reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(712 total reviews)
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Hassane El-Khoury

81% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Cypress Semiconductor has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 712 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cypress Semiconductor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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712 reviews
2.0
Jan 15, 2015

Good luck

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay, good benefits, stock, seemingly professional work environment, potential to get noticed for very hard work. If you have a related degree or a lot of related experience, you will do well.

Cons

For operators without a degree who work very hard, success is based on luck. Some people can advance, but most are stuck where they are for their Cypress career. High School-like environment and very clueless management. In all fields, you will see people that barely do anything and are always gone, still keeping their jobs. People who are very hard workers will have work/projects piled on them and will be criticized if they don't keep pulling the company's weight. Raises for most are awful. Unless you are one of the lucky ones, you will get 1% raises and 2 or 3 shares of stock a year. Also constant training classes, MANDATORY overtime and constant 2-hour video-chat meetings with an egotistical CEO that even wastes time bragging about his favorite football team. If you really care about the company you work for, they will work you to death. If you don't care, they will keep giving you paychecks.

1.0
Nov 5, 2013

Horrible place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and stock benefits

Cons

Negative people Yelling and cursing at employees from top down You will do nothing but work in your life here Overloaded processes make it impossible to get anything done

3.0
Aug 10, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

After nearly 30 years, CY still manages to succeed in an extremely volatile market. While many semiconductor companies come and go, CY stays the course. The technical ability of employees is well above average, which is attributed to the core values (we hire only the best) and the rigorous interview process (recently ranked as one of the 20 toughest interviews in corporate America.).

Cons

Management is stifling and has a poor track record of execution. Many product lines have gone by the wayside because of the management style, and the demeaning dictatorial style of the CEO. Further, the bloated overhead of processes makes it difficult to compete in the rapid product cycles of the tech industry. Effectively, anytime something goes wrong, a process must be added to ensure that it never goes wrong again, and everyone gets punished for one engineer's mistake. In the end, the "law code" of these so-called "quality checks" appears more like Congressional law code, and one might argue that it takes an "act of congress" to get even the simplest product out the door.

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