The place may not be suitable for people with high aspirations and looking for challenging work. Due to high number of junior employees (< 4 years) many times the atmosphere in office resembles college campus. Work quality gets diluted and overall output is average. High dependency on US counterparts. The business mostly runs on legacy products as well as new products introduced via acquisitions. No innovation takes place and not much cutting edge learning. Payscale is average and increments usually happen once in 18 months. Career growth has no benchmark and lateral movement is difficult. You may get stuck in same position if your boss can't move up. Performance reviews are namesake and MCHP does not believe in rating. No correlation of performance and hike. Lot of time spent on ineffective trainings. Creates more of a process leaders than technical/people leader