Pros
Fairchild pays well and there are excellent people who work there--though few and generally not in positions of power.
Cons
Fairchild's rating is inflated due to shill reviews by HR, but those reviews are easy to spot and filter. All companies have strengths and weaknesses--none are perfect--and semiconductor companies are hard-hit by tough business conditions, but it's hard to imagine a more pathetic, soulless, dysfunctional company than this fake Fairchild (I say fake, because other than the name, this company has nothing to do with the historic industry pioneer of the 1960s). They desperately want to serve Wall Street with quarterly earnings and valued, high-margin products, but they don't have the vaguest clue how to do it. So, they steal money from successful products and flush it away on ill-considered, obsolete-before-released products run by arrogant, worthless superstar "leaders". This might sound harsh, but I'm being kind. The Board of Directors should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this management cesspool to fester. Does this company want to change? Then hire honorable people passionate about technology--not ego-bloated, clueless fools and I say that to describe 90% of the people they hired in the three-four years.