MaxLinear reviews

3.2

52% would recommend to a friend

(346 total reviews)
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Dr. Kishore Seendripu

43% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

MaxLinear has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 346 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MaxLinear employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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346 reviews
1.0
Oct 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Learn a lot in a short period of time. Great start to a great career at Broadcom.

Cons

Long hours with less pay. With the amount of hours put in you will only end up making minimum wage. Employees are always stressed out due to unrealistic timelines which creates a terrible work environment.

2.0
May 26, 2009

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Technologically advanced. If you are willing to put in the time and effort, you can progress rapidly at MaxLinear.

Cons

1. Long hours 2. Unreasonable word load 3. Meager Pay Management likes to say employees are valued individuals, but the reality is much different. 8 hours of hard work is not enough - try 11 or 12 minimum (including weekends). But hey, if you need a H1 visa, they'll hire you. Then again, if they can cut your pay or eliminate your position altogether, they will. Often asks its employees to choose between life and work. Lack of company direction. Benefits of working for a small company is that it reacts quickly to the market. Downside is that it often lacks a plan.

2.0
May 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You'll get to work with good people and interesting projects. Truly some of the best people I've worked with in my career are/were at this company. I think pay is fairly competitive, provided stock is doing well, which is tends to not.

Cons

The biggest issue I see is the upper management in the VP to CEO level. They seem to have no idea what is going on. People complain about the lack of resources, low morale, crummy work environment and their complaints fall on deaf ears. Extremely project-critical people leave left and right for these reasons. It's really not that hard -- LISTEN TO THE EMPLOYEES, the CEO needs to stay humble and stop being so aggressive and arrogant and stop blaming engineers for failures at the top level. It's time for new management. They try to cut every expenditure, save pennies on the dollar to not provide anything for the employees. Time to wake up, the industry is very competitive and people will just simply find work elsewhere, where they are more appreciated and the company takes care of them. Driving people away and saying "they weren't needed anyways" is not how you run a company, I don't see how this is "investing in the future" as the CEO has stated before.

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