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Xilinx

Acquired by AMD

Is this your company?

Just a failure to communicate - Staff Software Engineer Xilinx Employee Review

2.0
Sep 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Engaging work on hard problems virtually every day, and doing so for a company that always seemed poised for rapid growth.

Cons

Management believed that it needed to play things close to the vest, so changes in direction were unexpected, and often poorly informed by ground truth. As a result, there was much empire-building and turf-protection by middle management. There was rarely a perception by people in the bottom half of the company that everyone was on the same page (even when it was true!). What was worst, though, was that much of the conflict seemed to be the result of false drama, created because the CEO, who had copies of the management classic "Who Moved My Cheese?" passed around after his arrival, seemed to take as his personal goal to "move people's cheese," not because it was necessary, but because he could.

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5.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great company to work for. Good leadership, bleed edge technology work, great peers, transparent management.

Cons

Promotions are relatively slow and regional teams play politics.

4.0
Jul 14, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Chill environment great people learn a lot

Cons

Legacy system sometimes very slow no clear direction on projects

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