Xilinx reviews

Far too much internal politics, needless layers of beauracracy, and too little employee empowerment. Many mid-level managers have little budget authority! Xilinx strives to be a $5B company but already has bloated beauracracy only enjoyed by major governments. Too much favoritism instead of meritocracy. Xilinx often hires from outside instead of developing and promoting the people that actually know how to make the place operate. Many times, this distracts the productive employees because they once again have to train another highly-paid senior manager or executive. In contrast, Xilinx is too inward-focussed when it comes to technology. Many times they re-create the wheel instead of leveraging or exploiting existing technology. Like in the Financial industry, too many executives and senior level management are too highly compensated for what they deliver to back to the company.

No one seems to have a real growth plan. The old is getting thrown out to make way for the new, and it's not clear that the new is any better at all. Politics run rampant.