Synopsys reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(4,457 total reviews)
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Sassine Ghazi

57% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Synopsys has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,457 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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4K reviews
1.0
Apr 20, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits were fine and parallel to other major companies in the area. Depending on the group you are in, there are some good people to work with.

Cons

- They supported student math and science tutoring and grant programs (I know because I volunteered in both) in a location where they won't be hiring these people as engineers, preferring to hire in "lower cost geographies." This came as an email from the CEO. - Huge politics and scapegoating. - Aquiring companies and laying off people, then expecting the rest to improve the quality and quantity of output to an unreasonable degree, while saying they support work/life balance. - Laying off just enough people so they don't have to report the layoff externally. - Tying unrealistic job performance expectations to salary cuts so they can get rid of people or reduce their salary without it being reported externally. - Laying off 200 people while the BU VP was making $3 million/year.

1.0
Jul 7, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great co-workers, some technologies are solid, used to be a great working environment

Cons

Behaving like a sinking ship, becoming a toxic environment to work for, every quarter there is a layoff, the top guy has become too greedy- a valley renowned face of just causes now only cares about money and money, not his employees. Got tax breaks from Trump only to lay off in the US and hire in Iow cost areas. Soon to be sued as only employees over 50 are shown the door.

2.0
Jan 23, 2018

SIG Leadership is lackluster

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive Wages, Nice Office Perks

Cons

Horrible delivery schedules, mismanaged from the top down, SVP has no clue how to operate a software organization in modern day.

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