Semtech reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(317 total reviews)

Hong Hou

81% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Semtech has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 317 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Semtech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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317 reviews
2.0
Feb 9, 2016

Unstable Company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good engineering team especially the ones marked permanent and very knowledgeable people who I enjoyed working with and learned a lot from their great experience

Cons

Instability and a lot of layoffs when I worked there I felt a great sense of darkness and gloominess and very uncomfortable to a point that I had a big sigh of relief when let go.

1.0
Jul 20, 2015

Dog years

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company offers extracurricular activities such as golf, soccer, basketball, etc. if you're into that kind of stuff.

Cons

The company overloads you with work and keeps adding to your workload on a regular basis until you get burned out or get fired. Workload gets even worse when they do layoffs. It never ends. It's not uncommon for employees to wear multiple hats and not be compensated commensurately. Reminder to management - increased responsibility does not equal a promotion. Senior management wants to make you feel like you're important but you are just a number to them. 6% layoff in 2014 followed by an 8% layoff in 2015. What's next? They also force you to take unpaid time off, about 10 days a year, if you don't have enough vacation saved up. If you do have vacation time, then you are forced to burn it up on their schedule, not yours. If you want even a tiny bit of work-life balance, stay far, far away from this place. If you enjoy a cut-throat environment where you don't know if you'll have a job tomorrow, give this company a try....at your own risk. 1 year here will feel like 7 years. Trust me.

1.0
Aug 13, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

there are a few very amazing people mixed in there

Cons

the director level is the worst I've worked with. toxic leadership and inappropriate behavior makes it a really awful place to be. also this place will work you to death.

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