Bad place if you aren't in the Texas location - Senior Applications Engineer Silicon Labs Employee Review

1.0
7 June 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They are profitable and have a lot of resources. The people are ethical and honest. There are some good engineers there that are good people to work with

Cons

-Large company corporate atmosphere -their org chart is very top heavy -There are more mangers for each project than people actually doing work, and they love having endless meetings -Business strategy comes from marketing people who have no Idea what they are doing and change their mind faster than you can make products so you feel like you are never accomplishing anything -They are overly laden with process -minimum benefits and pay, 2 weeks vacation, unnegotiable, your 1st 3 years even if you are a senior engineer is pretty terrible. -management operates in a cloud independent of the engineers, spitting out random and conflicting directives -it's pretty much a dead end job if you aren't in the TX location. -moral in the Boston office is pretty low -they randomly have small layoffs and location closings even though they have plenty of money and work to do, upper management would like to consolidate everything to Texas if they could and close down all the other locations, and they aren't honest about why they close places down

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5.0
10 June 2026
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Pros

Great people, great office culture, good office, great managers, lots of opportunities to grow your career, great hybrid model (for now)

Cons

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3.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The work was engaging and gave me the opportunity to learn a variety of new methods for integrating and modeling chips and peripherals across interesting IoT applications.

Cons

Guidance was limited, and frequent shifts in management priorities led to many projects being scrapped before completion. As a result, I often found myself moving between loosely related topics rather than building momentum on any one area. My assignments didn't consistently align with my core strengths, and opportunities for growth felt limited.

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