Synopsys reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(4,458 total reviews)
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Sassine Ghazi

57% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Synopsys has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,458 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Synopsys employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Dec 25, 2010

Wasted the most fruitful years of life

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Pros

Some very highly qualified talented engineers. Aart seems to be a scrupulous, efficient gentleman with ethical values and ideals. Good top management.

Cons

Career management seems to be almost absent. Some horribly unprofessional, sadistic middle managers, who can make life miserable. Some managers do not seem to be acceptable to anyone in the company except their immediate managers. Some of them don’t even understand what’s going-on, but still survive in the job by buttering up. Senior management’s support to such managers. Feedback from the exiting employees is almost entirely ignored. Lack of teamwork. Employees are treated more like competitors than team-players. The reviews here seem to be sugar-coated. Informal talks doing the rounds seem to be quite different. The main problem is with at least a few sadistic middle managers, whom the senior management does not let go.

4.0
Dec 17, 2010

Learn from the best but in a shriveling market

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Pros

They know their customers and technologies and execute well. High integrity.

Cons

Exec staff is stale. No fresh blood in many years. Has lead to myopia.

3.0
Dec 16, 2010

So so... from good to not-so-good

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Pros

Good environment Friendly management It's a global company so you get the feeling that you are doing something usefull. Clients include Nvidia, Toshiba, and other big players in semicon.

Cons

No travelling, Promotions are rare, Pay isn't as good as other companies People are not valued

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