Marvell Technology reviews

Long hours prevalent and largely expected by management Recently prone to headcount reduction Huge variation in effectiveness of middle-management (but there are some very good ones) Compensation is largely not competitive with the rest of the market and a low-ball offer is not unexpected, so bring in a competing offer to make sure they don't gouge you. Business ethics at Mrvl are a bit dodgy - from marketing and sales down to engineering. The executive team lacks the charisma that gives shareholders confidence and employees a sense of security and pride. I observed too much finger-pointing/witch-hunting when things went wrong before collaborating to fix problems. Things run a bit like a startup, but now that headcount is in the thousands, there needs to be more infrastructure.

There are mainly two group of people in the company. One group are very young, new grad (with the company less than 5 yrs), who do not care much about the career at Marvell, they just use here as a boot camp for their career development and prepare for better opportunities in the valley. Another group is very old (with the company longer than 10 yrs), they are settled with the company for quite a while and most of them do not have the motivation to improve. As a result, the management, esp the mid management are either very young, who are lack of experience and terrible to work with. Or too old to care. Sometimes, people with absolute no experience are put in a critical management position.