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4.3
Average Rating
(based on 4 Agere Systems Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.5
Growth Opportunities
4.2
People You Work With
4.5
Person You Work For
4.5
Rewards You Receive
4.3
Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.7
Work Setting
3.7
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Systems Test Engineer

"A Great Company to work for"

What do you like about working at Agere Systems?

"Be able to move from one department to anotherto increase your skill set."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The Company went out of business. Sorry it wasa good place to work."

What don't you like about working at Agere Systems?

"The constant layoffs and selling off of divisionsto make the profitable."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Understand what operations they are running instead of selling off divisions."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Multimedia Systems Architect

What do you like about working at Agere Systems?

"The company is ceative and have a long history. The location is too far to other high tech company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They are quite easy going and don't worry about the question they ask."

What don't you like about working at Agere Systems?

"Too slow to make decision. Too relaxing to move forward."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make decision quickly and develop IP internally. Meet more often."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5

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Optical Engineer

What do you like about working at Agere Systems?

"I liked dynamic working environment and new projects in designing and developing amplifiers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It will be nice to suggest and ask the company with various optical or electrical topics."

What don't you like about working at Agere Systems?

"Everything was great, but only thing was that each engineer has only one topic at a time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It would be better to give more chances to work with other related topics."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Product Engineer
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3.9 / 5
Support You Get 4.8 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.9 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4.9 / 5
Lab Technician

"Excellent place to work at."

Process Engineer

"Learn a language from the far east."

What do you like about working at Agere Systems?

"Freedom to solve issues."

What don't you like about working at Agere Systems?

"Short term profit driven."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Bring manufacturing back to the US."

Internal Auditor

"A job has Balance of work and life"

What do you like about working at Agere Systems?

"0% travel! & 100% work from home. You can't find an internal audit job like this."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't ask for higher pay."

What don't you like about working at Agere Systems?

"Salary is low, no room to grow, no bonus because company doesn't do well."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"People is the resource of company. Recognize who is good for the company is important. Think about why talents don't stay wrong People who brought down the company are still there."

Member of Technical Staff

"This is the company which invented semiconductor industry practically."

What do you like about working at Agere Systems?

"I used to work with the brightest people at Bell Labs including some Nobel Price winners"

What don't you like about working at Agere Systems?

"This company is too R&D oriented and eventually we missed all the markets and this basically drove the company down to the drain"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"good time to market practice"

Electronic Maintenance Technician

"great place to work"

What do you like about working at Agere Systems?

"Great working conditions and lots of variety in the job requirements , lots of new thing to learn . Technology cycles lasted for only about 6 months and equipment changed all the time."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"CHANGE is a lifestyle that one must get use to."

What don't you like about working at Agere Systems?

"To much down sizing went on and management like to play their cards close to the vest so to speak."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more open to employees and let lower level people help in the decision making process"

Senior Member of Technical Staff

"LSI (Formerly Agere) is the good place for work, but there is no much career build opportunity."

Agere Systems Reviews FAQs

Is Agere Systems a good company to work for?

Agere Systems has an overall rating of 4.3 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 4 Agere Systems Review Ratings left anonymously by Agere Systems employees, which is 10% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 100% of employees would recommend working at Agere Systems.

Does Agere Systems pay their employees well?

Agere Systems employees earn $79,000 annually on average, or $38 per hour, which is 20% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 0 Agere Systems employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Agere Systems Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Agere Systems?

100% of employees would recommend working at Agere Systems with the overall rating of 4.3 out of 5. Employees also rated Agere Systems 4.5 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.3 for Rewards You Receive, 4.2 for Growth Opportunities and 4.2 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Agere Systems?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Agere Systems is a Director of Advanced Technology at $161,000 annually. Browse Agere Systems Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Agere Systems?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Agere Systems is a Administrative Assistant at $22,000 annually. Browse Agere Systems Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at Agere Systems?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Agere Systems to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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