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      Cadence Design Systems

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      4.1

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (2,776 total reviews)
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      Anirudh Devgan

      85% approve of CEO

      80% positive business outlook

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      Cadence Design Systems has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,776 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Cadence Design Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      2.0
      Jul 9, 2012

      Constant change, for change's sake, married with a lack of vision.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Cadence has/had some very bright and hard working employees, who are also good to work with. Cadence has made some good, key acquisitions.

      Cons

      R&D: Not much Research going on, and Development is reactionary in the name of 'customer driven'. Belief in Heros: Certain people are put in charge of groups or projects, because of close personal ties, or because they made a 'diving catch' once, but these people do not necessarily possess leadership qualities, nor are they nurtured or trained to be leaders.

      3.0
      Jan 13, 2012

      Cadence is doing OK

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good work life balance for the most part. Friendly and smart people, many of whom have worked in Cadence for many years and know their stuff very well.

      Cons

      The company is in an industry that has been stale for years. New value propositions are difficult. The end result is most R&D are doing maintenance work and bug fixing for very old code, rather than building something new and exciting. Like other EDA companies, the company didn't view itself as a software company for a long time and doesn't have good software practice. The software is not well tested or peer reviewed, is somewhat difficult to work with and can be bug prone. Fixing old bugs often leads to new ones and there are no company-wide enforced procedures to prevent that. Compensation used to be good. Now it is still somewhat around average, but hasn't kept pace with non-EDA software or semi companies that are doing well in the valley in recent years.

      4.0
      Nov 28, 2011

      Good place to work, but..

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good place to work, friendly workplace, good people. The company designs very complex software and you get to interact with very smart customers.

      Cons

      Limited total available market . Eda is a very specialized discipline, so the experience you gain is of limited value outside. Also gets increasingly political as you move up the management chain.

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