Cadence Design Systems reviews

The majority of Cadence employees are men over 50 years old. Most of the benefits are for people this age, i.e they constantly have speakers coming to the campus to talk about "how to choose a good college for your children". The maternity paid leave is only 55 days, and the paternity leave is only 5 (five!) days. They don't promote too many events to make people get to know each other, so young professionals usually feel lonely on the work routine. The environment is very serious and nobody talks to each other, specially because the cubicles have tall walls around them. If you want to eat a snack, the only option you have are nuts and coffe/tea. You have to buy your own snack and lunch, and the food on the cafeteria is not even good. The wages for recent grads are usually lower then the average on Bay Area.

New CIO basically replaced a really good, professional, and talented IT department. Watched co-workers and even IT management that were mentors to me get laid off and replaced with someone that was less knowledgeable and unprofessional and then new IT Management expected us to pick up their slack and make it look as if IT was a happy family. NOT! The only positive is the that I'm now less stressed and look forward to my new adventures.