Pros
Some non-managers co-workers (not HR) are decent people to work with, I recommend they all improve their life path by finding another job ASAP.
Cons
- Innovation is squashed and ideas stolen by management for their own benefit - Absolutely no personal professional development, wastes your time to improve yourself - Management is beyond incompetent and needs extremely dumbed down presentations to understand anything (and you will work on presentations that have to be edited for them over and over until you want to die every single day) - You will be called out for issues due to management stupidity every day - No hope for promotion unless you "drink the poisonous Kool-aid" that is the most horrible company value list I have ever been subjected to for reviews (management breaks every rule on list and gets away with it) - Management will work you to death for long hours over problems that they caused by not listening to engineers on project development issues - LED manufacturing division works their cleanroom employees with no respect for work/life balance with very old and outdated (possibly unsafe) equipment - LED development employees seem competent and kind but are beyond overworked, don't work for SSL if you want have a life and spouse/kids - Zero relocation opportunities - Max raise is 2-3%/year regardless of performance - Office space conditions are over-crowded and labs are under-staffed and equipped - Managers thrive on keep employee spirits down by treating them like they are incompetent - Overall product quality is horrible due to managers cutting so many budget and certification steps on project giving all Cree products horrible quality not due to the engineers skills