Engaging company culture, generous health benefits, coworkers seek to help each other, encouragement to grow in areas you're interested in, concrete goal-setting on an individual level, compensation for above-average performance
Cons
No metrics for teams as a whole to measure success, as far as I know. Teams don't communicate with each other well, which leads to a lot of confusion, misinformation, misunderstandings, and general misalignment.
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Flexibility with WFH/Hybrid depending on your job/team
Great starting PTO + decent sick/family time
Challenging work
Smart, hard-working co-workers
People work here for decades because it's a great work culture
Cons
It's a software company. Cramming features in at the last minute, and requiring long hours from testing & doc to meet deadlines, is frustrating but not unexpected
Benefits are just OK - lost all of my doctors when they stopped having one local insurance option
If you're in R&D but not an engineer, you are undervalued for bonuses
No upward path if you don't want to manage - eventually you stagnate and have nowhere to go
Agile dev process is challenging for documentation and testing and is not always realistic with big projects
Huge uncertainty after Synopsys buyout - I've had bad experiences with EDA companies undervaluing some jobs in the past (testing/doc] so not feeling any job security at the moment