I've spent few years with Entropic, we had regular layoffs and if you are planning to spend time with EC you should be ready for things like this. Working for Entropic is difficult to describe as my team was pretty good but I did not like many other... — read more 

10 pct cut in aug 2013... not sure if 2014 will be any better

The whole issue is that Entropic is basically a 1 product company and thus the company lives and dies by the life cycle of the product. This is very typical in semiconductor startups (but system startups as well). The challenge is that the best time... — read more 

Lots of politics, not very rewarding unless you are working in the hardware group. Yes, it is a chip company, but other groups including SW also play a critical role in the success of the company.