Linear Technology Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Linear Technology full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Company is very conservatively run with predictable and stable performance even in tough economic times as these. Highly intelligent, capable, and experienced R&D/factory engineers interface with industry-best global field sales teams. Business units and shallow internal hierarchy fosters easier inter- and intradepartmental cooperation.

Cons – Base compensation is sub-par, sometimes leading to lowered morale & motivation. Benefits and amenities are seen as mediocre, with the occasional accusation of the company being "cheap" at the expense of comfort and even functionality.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Linear Technology

Pros – Results and income are tightly related

Cons – Very flat org and noone leaves so very little advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Linear Technology

Pros – Great place to work for designers

Cons – Difficult porducts to work on

Advice to Senior Management – They are doing a great job

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Linear Technology

Pros – Great place to learn integrated circuit design from one of the most experienced companies in the field. Very little bureaucracy to contend with.

Cons – Prone to industry ups and downs.

Advice to Senior Management – To expand product scope to new markets that may be a bit outside core competencies and look at designing higher level products that can go direct to consumers in addition to b2b products.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Linear Technology

Pros – Exceptional talent. Good networking. A lot of collaboration by way of walking around and chatting about circuits, techniques etc. Not a lot of micromanaging. Fairly efficiently run company. Excellent compensation, especially in the form of bonuses.

Cons – Sometimes frugality made the job challenging. Linear used to have a lack of desire in wanting to spend the extra buck on software packages or equipment. They have improved on this over the years. This frugality also led to innovation (a pro) where engineers had to be clever to circumvent whatever shortcomings they had.

Advice to Senior Management – In general, the management is well run. It was nice that most of the management team was once on the engineering side.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend