7 June 2025
Fairchild Semiconductor Reviews
3.3
48% would recommend to a friend
Mark S. Thompson
48% approve of CEO
17% positive business outlook
Fairchild Semiconductor has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 253 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fairchild Semiconductor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
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253 reviews
3.0
24 Oct 2014
It was a good ride while it lasted
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 10 years
West Jordan, UT
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
A bittersweet review of the Pros since ultimately, we will be out of a job next year, but Fairchild has offered many opportunities in the 20+ years I have worked there.They offered very good benefits. They have the best Educational Assistance program I have ever known. They allowed for me to get a degree and other certificates without incurring any debt. They paid for it all and it is something that will help me move forward after I am no longer an employee. Ever since the announcement of the closure, and even before then when the rumors were going around, the site management has encouraged employees to take advantage of the educational assistance and any other opportunities to help us when it's time to move on. The severance package they are offering is fair. They are providing out placement, a job fair, and other support services to help us out. I'll miss the on-site gym which included a variety of classes for a minimum monthly fee. I will miss the great people that work there too. I am definitely leaving there much better off than when I started.
Cons
I used to have great respect for Mark Thompson. At one time, he wanted to keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S. He made a deal with our then governor, Jon Huntsman, five years ago that our site would provide more high paying jobs in exchange for tax breaks and other business-friendly perks. They even started to convert our site to an 8" facility to keep us competitive. It gave us a false sense of security. Meanwhile, Mark brought in the new COO, and it went downhill fast. They pulled the plug on the 8" conversion, and as soon as the five year agreement time was up, they pulled the plug on the whole site.
1.0
23 Sept 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
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.
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