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Cadence Design Systems

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Good pay, bad management - Group Director Cadence Design Systems Employee Review

3.0
May 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good. Smart people.

Cons

Run like an old-school chip company. Poor communications, poor management. CEO is rarely there. They had a shot with EDA360 and some new products but then abandoned that when the CMO left.

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Pros

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Cons

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