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Pros
"good company if you want to have a very good work-life balance" (in 354 reviews)
"Good work environment, good work" (in 150 reviews)
Cons
"No work life balance in Synopsys" (in 65 reviews)
"Limited career growth (unless you become friends with your group leader)" (in 44 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Featured ReviewHelpful (4)
"Great place to work with great people"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
The people and their dedication to bring the best technically
Cons
Company has grown fast from a niche space EDA software company to a high mid-range software conglomerate with a wealth of great products. From a market standpoint this causes stock analyst to compare Synopsys to other software conglomerates which are in broader non-technical space. This is resulting in growing pain changes as Synopsys transitions from a small software company focused on a high level of technical excellence to a company influenced by market analysis and comparisons
"Values Employees Well-being"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Synopsys full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Encourages creativity, Looks after employees, Friendly environment
Cons
Nothing that I can think of
Continue readingPros
good benefits and some amazing management
Cons
a bit of a mess sometimes
Continue reading"Good progression"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Synopsys full-time for less than a year
Pros
Inclusive culture and great progression
Cons
Frequent changes in roles and responsibilities
"Company Review"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsI have been working at Synopsys full-time
Pros
Great company to work for.
Cons
Product team sits in US, so a bit delay.
"Sales review"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Synopsys full-time
Pros
Benefits, larger company with nice offices
Cons
Lack of pay and progression
"Good Company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Nice company with a dynamic environment.
Cons
There are no major cons
"Good company, but suffering from outcome bias"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at Synopsys full-time for more than a year
Pros
Good salary, and benefits. Share-based rewards have been really good thanks to great stock performance in recent years.
Cons
Suffers from outcome bias. Different teams focused on avoiding extra work, rather than working together with different teams, to try and achieve best results for customers.
Continue readingPros
A team of great people and really knowledgeable security engineers, modern facilities, frequent social outings, good perks, great life:work balance, atmosphere, and decent pay. The team felt like a bunch of good friends.
Cons
The management lets people burn out doing grunt work for too long. Good experience at first, but given enough time people start craving for more challenge and they are not getting it. If you are starting there make a career development plan and carve out your path. Decide what you want to do in the long run, build a solid case as to why they should let you, set boundaries on your time, and make sure you are given time to work towards your goal. Otherwise you'll get stuck on the same level. True, they try to incorporate quite a bit of training and time for skills development but competing priorities ofter come in the way of it. The great security researchers are often underutilised.
"Disappointing"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Pay is good and yearly bonus is usually okay. Local office culture is good.
Cons
Lack of career prospectives (no promotions/salary increases for multiple years running). Lack of interesting/challenging work (lots of long term projects). Attrition rate is high amongst consultants. Work is often overscoped for the time allotted, leading to long hours in order to achieve the 'work order'. Yearly feedback surveys are often ignored and no changes are made.
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