Analog Devices has a 4.0 average employee review on Glassdoor and CEO has 85 percent approval. I refuse to believe these are legitimate reviews by actual employees. I know of very few people who are currently happy at work and even fewer who believe Roche is doing a great job. Is this HR doing damage control or am I out of touch with how happy the general populace is?
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@OP It’s usually interns who write most of the positive articles so they are inexperienced and they haven’t had enough work/life experience to know any better. HR is also involved with controlling and keeping the positive review percentage high, but it’s not just you. A large percentage of the reviews here are bogus.
I think it probably depends on department with manufacturing being less satisfied. Company internal website always stresses how important employees are to the company. Its sad cuz the people who have devoted decades to the company (in manufacturing) are the ones thrown away. They are doing layoffs in wilmington while they do high-fives in oregon and collect money from the chips act for moving jobs to beaverton and camas
i've been with ADI for over a decade. the vast majority of my colleagues feel as i do that ADI is a great place to work. biggest complaints tend to be about risk aversity, that management isn't willing to take significant risks. that's a mixed bag though, with plenty of folks happy to feel more stable with less risk. manufacturing and technician roles tend to be least happy. design, apps, and other engineering roles tend to be significantly happy. middle management runs the full spectrum.
i've had several significant opportunities to leave, but in the end i chose to stay every time. i like the people i work with, the work itself, and the management team directly above me.
i came here today as i heard someone asking about layoffs and the noise on this site doesn't match with my direct experiences overall, but i assume at least some of these posts are legitimate people venting real frustration.
I intend to believe HR is doing damage control. I think from an employee's point, Roche's rating is 0. He completely destroyed ADI's culture.
Multiple shutdowns in 2nd half 2023 at San Jose, others.
I have worked at ADI for over a decade and my glassdoor review is overall very positive. The vast majority of my colleagues are very happy at ADI as well.
I have heard that folks in manufacturing are often less satisfied than others have been, but those I knew in manufacturing retired some years ago and I no longer have much of an ear in that space. Design and verification engineers are, in my direct experience, generally quite happy here.
When I read the reviews sounds more like they are not in the states. And the work parties they have in the countries shows the difference. Analog Takes from the workers here , cost savings, mandates termination #layoffs, save $ save money
Most are miserable. The reviews are fake.
I also think many of the vague positive reviews on Glassdoor are from HR shill accounts. Everyone I know from multiple locations of legacy adi,maxim, and ltc has terrible morale. Lots of people leaving. Many who stay are hoping for packages. I’ve never seen a company falling apart like this with management doing nothing about it.
A few years ago (more than 7), they encouraged employees to post positive reviews on Glassdoor in order to further improve their standing in the Greatest Companies To Work For list (they were in the top 10, I believe) - back then, it felt like a legitimately good spot, but soon afterwards they put their foot in it. Based on what I'm hearing now, I don't believe it's so hot anymore.
I don’t know for ADI, but when I worked at Xilinx, they had their HR department set up shill accounts on Glassdoor and post fake reviews to boost the company rating. Any of these systems that can be gamed are gamed. This info came directly from someone in HR that had to do fake reviews.
Out of USA employees online seem to be happy , manufacturing @Headquarters moral very very low .. Budget cuts low pay , higher wages being at other USA locations except Wilmington.. parties were ongoing throughout pandemic in New Headquarters building while cutting jobs