Pros
The company has several different business lines and lobbying competences, that seem to guarantee survive in the medium to long term. The sophia antipolis site looks solid today. For the south france it is probably one of the few big companies left to work on microelectronics. Good CE.
Cons
Top management is very financially driven, and this reflects in employees activities. There seems to be a lack of focus, and in general a multiplication of similar projects that overload the employees without often resulting in technical advances. Very little research and much of the work is actually development. However due to the nature of the business, occasionally it seems some interesting development happen: still just a minority of the employees have chances to be involved. Despite a wide variety of activities of the site, transition from one workplace to another does not seem encouraged, which makes personal development possibilities limited.