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      Cadence Design Systems

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      Cadence Design Systems reviews

      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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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      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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      3K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 14, 2014

      I worked in COSMIC IP team which was acquired by cadence (this review is not about Cadence EDA)

      Senior design engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good compensation rest all are cons.

      Cons

      They fire people ,so be careful in work and even HR support is limited. Bully managers micro management Tight schedules Most of the people come to office during weekend. very poor work life balance most of the time. sometimes has to work very late nights most of the works are clean up works. my manager impose huge pressure and stress on employees

      4.0
      Mar 11, 2014

      You make your own opportunities

      Senior member of consulting staff
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You can build a global personal network based on the colleagues and customers you engage with. Doing solid work that solves real problems will get you noticed. Most years, Cadence holds an internal technical conference that provides additional opportunities to burnish your reputation among peers. Not everyone gets to go, but those who do can use the event to launch collaboration across business units and geographic sites. Most employees are happy with their local teams, and reserve their suspicion for other business units and senior management strategy. Lots of former employees come back through acquisitions and direct recruiting. These are usually the senior contributors who figured out how to manage their career opportunities at Cadence.

      Cons

      Vacation benefits have been a disaster, unless you were senior enough to bank enough hours. Fortunately there has been some softening over the last year to move towards a more rational and employee-friendly policy. Career advancement is pretty easy until you get to Member of Consulting Staff, beyond that you need to be seen working on customer engagements that management cares about. Higher level promotions are rare for the operations teams and software generalists.

      1.0
      Feb 21, 2014

      Bad, bad experience

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Stable company, some smart people

      Cons

      Distant people, lack transparency, arrogant middle management, very little opportunity

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