Synopsys Senior Software Developer reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(108 total reviews)
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Sassine Ghazi

65% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Synopsys with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 108 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Synopsys is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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108 reviews
3.0
Jun 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart people, most of them holding graduate degrees. Managers, even several levels up the chain, are usually friendly and generous with their time. Telecommuting is generally allowed at least 1 day a week, although this varies from one group to another.

Cons

Limited advancement opportunities - I once asked a mid-level manager how one could get a promotion and he looked me in the eye and said "know somebody". Sadly, my subsequent experience at the company seems to bear that out. Annual raises tend to be rather small and there are few opportunities to learn new skills. Management can make some rather "Dilbert-esque" decisions. It often seems that the product release schedule is dictated by the usually-irrational promises made by the marketing and/or sales departments rather than logic, resulting in fairly frequent crunch-time scenarios. This in turn leads to product quality suffering and unnecessary levels of stress. The food in the on-campus cafeterias, while good, is not free, nor is it particularly cheap. The engineers work in drab grey cubicles under cheap fluorescent lights.

4.0
Oct 16, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Stable 2. Powerful so only valuable and meaningful user requests can be passed to RDs to implement 3. Follow software development process, including, spec, architecture review, code review and testing 4. RDs can focus on software development. Unlike some small companies, some RDs need to do customer support as well.

Cons

1. Many managers 2. Too many meetings

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