Maxis Communications

None that come to mind

No Allowance, no cab and cafeteria is small

Always catching up to Intel. Last 2 years have been a roller coaster what with all the layoffs leading to low morale. Projects often get canceled and there has been a constant reorg going on. This leads to a lot of uncertainty among employees as to what the next assignment would be.

startup-ish culture. Work life balance is absent

Bad executives. Slow in promotion. Wrong decisions are made.

gloomy business outlook management continually revokes frills (smaller cubicles, vacation days don't roll over...) almost no annual bonus due to poor company financials layoffs are almost annual

Management focuses too much on the short-term. People are no longer viewed as the most important resource owned by the company. Not enough attention is given to career development.

Company doesn't make money, doesn't pay bonuses and when they do they are small. No clear corporate direction.

1. Salary less compared to other product based company

flexible hours mean you work more from home in the middle of the night, management indecision causes schedule nightmares, the company is trying to do way too much with way to few people, every project is understaffed by 2x, over committed on features by 3x, and scheduled to be finished 6 months ahead of reality. No reverse feedback from employees to management so they are allowed to run open loop, as long as they look good to their superiors, then they get praise and promotions. Really, the way to get promoted is to screw something up so badly that there should be no choice but to fire you. But if you've kissed the right asses, you get promoted instead. There are also now as many VP's and PM's as there are engineers, no wonder we can't get anything done.