Qorvo Reviews

CEO - He is extremely cocky and could care less about the workers. Sharp contrast to the TriQuint CEO who actually visited the factories every quarter, who called every employee on their birthday, and who made every employee feel valued from the operators to the leadership team. QORVO is all about levels and playing favorites. CFO - He is a loose cannon. He directs people to do things that dangerously tread the line of accounting fraud so he can hit committed margin targets. His communication style is abrasive to say the least. The company only values people in Greensboro (even if they are dreadfully inefficient) and turns their back on and doesn’t value intelligent, high caliber people if they don’t reside in Greensboro. The company is failing and will continue to fail because the GSO executives are too myopic and they don’t care about people. They only care about their own pockets. Companies that excel actually care about their workers and they value people that challenge the mainstream. QORVO management doesn’t. They want everything to be done the same way. Same way = the way Legacy RFMD did things = inefficient. They had a huge reduction in force in September. However, instead of getting rid of poor performers and truly inefficient people that dont innovate and just continue to say “well this is how we’ve always done it”, they lay off high performing, intelligent, efficient thinkers in remote locations. I have never seen a more incompetent group of leaders. The company will continue to fail with this group of leaders. It’s a Global company living like it’s in the 80’s. GSO executives believe that people need to be in GSO for the business to operate efficiently. It’s beyond absurd. TriQuint would’ve had them for lunch if they hadn’t merged. The merger brought the culture down, morale down and drove great people out. The best thing that can happen for the company now is for another company to come in, buy them, and get rid of all of the GSO executive management and inefficient people in GSO.

Attempt at following so called LEAN principles means wringing too much work out of too few people. Obsession with "continuous improvement" results in breaking processes that are working, trying to fix that which does not need fixed. Managers speak as if they are attending a buzzword laden seminar 24/7, insisting on referring to problems as "opportunities," lacing every discussion with needless jargon. Humans are reduced to numbers and myopic profit is the primary motivation at this company rather than employee well being or even advancement of the industry. There is extreme inequality in the distribution of effort. Some employees are granted an enormous amount of free time while a plethora of tasks minor and major have been delegated to an increasingly stressed out few. Not unusual to see a couple of employees sweating while the majority are doing nothing but engaging in casual banter and non-work related conversations.