Zoran Reviews

3.7

55% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)
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Levy Gerzberg

68% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Zoran has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zoran employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.9 stars).

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53 reviews
1.0
1 Oct 2008
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Pros

Zoran is a good way to enter the semi conductor industry. You will learn about the consumer electronics sector and gain valuable experience in the rising video market. Zoran supplies the chips in many of the DVD players sold at best buy circuit city etc... If you want to be in this sector Zoran can serve as a good school. The products are more on the commodity end, not much in the high end. You will find that the company is risk averse and incapable of competing on the basis of technological leadership. If you are looking for a challenge this is not the place for you.

Cons

The company is a textbook case study in what happens to a soulless technology company in Silicon Valley. The leadership is incapable of defining a strategy that would permit it to be trailblazer in its industry. it puts on a fine show at CES but most of those talented people have left or have been fired by the company. Little can be expected from a company that suffers from an engineering culture gone wild. Little respect for marketing or new ideas coming from those outside the elite circle of old friends who surround the CEO. Tough to break through these barriers.

2.0
9 Oct 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Learn a lot about image processing and embedded systems Learn how to work with different cultures Gold status with United within a year

Cons

â?¢ Gold status with United within a year - insane travel schedule for no good reason. If you think this is fun, think again. Just because you were sent to Japan doesnâ??t mean you will see Japan. â?¢ You pretty much start living in the office. Crazy schedules and simple lack of foresight. â?¢ Despite what the company says that Sunnyvale is THE world headquarters, all the decisions are made in some closed rooms in Haifa. Then they are folded down to engineers with no explanation. No initiatives from the engineers are accepted. â?¢ No vision of where the company is going. No entrepreneur thinking. It keeps fighting the yesterdayâ??s battle and following in the footsteps of others instead of leading. â?¢ Short term (2 months max) thinking. Save money now on really mundane things that other companies do as a matter of fact. Then drive your workers hard to resolve all the mistakes that fall from that. â?¢ The company is sitting on the pile of cash but refuses to hire more people to finish projects already in the pipeline driving the current employees like slaves. â?¢ Seems that the management distrusts their own employees. Very often the case is that the documentation is restricted to only specific individuals. You cannot get the documents on the parts you supposed to fix despite the signed NDA.

3.0
30 Sept 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Nice after school educating company Good benefits package and working conditions Excellent peer group with no politicization A lot of travelling to Asia if you like it

Cons

Little career advancement Less options in terms of variety of work Compensation low in proportion to the work expected really dangerous for career to stuck at this company for more than 2-3 years

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