Good workplace until you get stuck or abused - Anonymous employee Analog Devices Employee Review

Toxic workplace culture: - Lack of meaningful career growth opportunities. Most people who leave do so because of this. - Select employees are promoted into people management roles with little to no vetting of their emotional intelligence, empathy, communication skills, etc. for the role. - A number of mid-level managers are noticeably insecure and arrogant (talk too much in meetings, act as if they know more than others, state their opinions like facts). - The occasional narcissistic executive comes along and abuses employees, some of whom leave because of it. - Intermittent mismanagement of projects and employees (assigning meaningless work, work not well-suited for employees’ skill sets, told to behave in ways that don’t align with one’s values/personality, given a task/project but then having the result thrown out completely as much as 8 months later). - Regular hypocrisy/gaslighting from management about norms (e.g. many examples including: told that managers who dismiss their reports’ career aspirations are still “good managers”, told to focus on technical work but then forced to go to irrelevant meetings, told that we shouldn’t work on projects we don’t enjoy but then seen as difficult for trying to leave a project we dislike, and so on). - Unhealthy expectations around work-life balance despite management’s claims of the opposite. - DEI not taken all that seriously. The global team consists of just 3 people. - Weak values around actively soliciting feedback from employees (in conversation about mismanagement, told by a manager that “no news is good news”).