Great Company, laking of future - Embedded Software Engineer Cirrus Logic Employee Review

4.0
Apr 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Cirrus is a great Company to work for. It treats its employees in a fair and consistent way, with very high perks and quality of life.

Cons

Software developers have no future within the company. The company is a hardware company that makes silicon designs for audio chips, so the entire company only rewards hardware guys. Software guys are not listened to, and quite often, the hardware design will take a path of design that breaks some software rules. After 6 years there, I saw the lack of software participation in the company and how projects don't listen to software requirements, so I decided to move on. The global software manager is a hardware guy. So software developers don't have a bigger future in the company.

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5.0
May 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent work environment. Good perks. Interesting and exiting projects.

Cons

Needs to work on improving processes, some departments still run in excel / sharedpoint

3.0
May 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The company has strong technical products and many talented engineers. There are opportunities to work on meaningful engineering and verification challenges, and I had positive technical collaborations with several strong engineers.

Cons

Employee experience can vary significantly depending on local management. In my experience, feedback and escalation did not always feel transparent or actionable. I would encourage future employees to pay close attention to how expectations, performance concerns, and speak-up issues are handled in practice. Company culture should not be judged only by perks, free food, snacks, or friendly messaging. Core values like ethics, integrity, and speaking up are truly tested during difficult situations — when there is conflict, disagreement, or concerns raised about management behavior. That is when employees see whether values are truly lived or mostly written on paper. I would also be thoughtful about employee surveys. Even when surveys are described as anonymous, discussing results openly at a small-group or team level can make employees question whether their feedback is truly protected. If people feel comments can be traced back to a small group, they may stop being honest.

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