Pay okay but a lot of overtime and odd hours - Applications Engineer Marvell Technology Employee Review

1.0
Nov 27, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

* Pay is at market rate. * Unlimited vacation but you will not have time to take it. Some times, your manager can deny your vacation request. * If you can work over time for a long time without much vacation, then, this job is for you.

Cons

* A lot of over time, odd hours, and unplanned work. I was burned out in a year. Meeting time from 7:30am PST (with US customers), and ended at 11pm PST (with India team). One employee is doing 3 employees worth of work to save cost. That's why stock is higher but at the cost of employees' time. * A lot of product issues, engineering don't resolve them quickly. Customers were unhappy and put a lot of stress on me. * 95% engineering team is in India so there are mandatory night time meetings with Project Management, Product Management, Customer Issues, and even All-hands are all happening between 8pm PST to 11pm PST. * With unlimited vacation, you don't get to take it since you have a lot of unplanned work/issue. When I left Marvell, I had no PTO balance to cash out. For the 2 years I was here (between 2018-2020), I took less than one week of vacation. * There will be no job/product training; they expect you to train yourself with this complicated HSM product. It took me 9 months to understand 70% of the product.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work at. Free gym, ev charging, subsidized food. Great managers and well organized intern program

Cons

Not here long enough to tell.

5.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-high impact work, high visibility, hyped field (AI Infra) -most teams don't have daily standups like traditional software companies, less useless meetings -insanely smart employees -5 days office but management is very lenient; any small reason to wfh is perfectly fine -feels good to be here

Cons

pay could be better if compared to the big leagues like nvidia and broadcom

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