Cadence Design Systems Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems

Pros – good work ethic inside the company

Cons – less young people in the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – If you are looking for an EDA company that is fairly stable, well paid, with good benefits. Cadence is the right company to work for. Being the second largest in this industry, you'll feel your job is important and satisfying.

Cons – Heavy internal politics will slow you down sometimes. This is really not a start-up-like, roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, type of company. If you are looking for a environment full of passion of innovations and creations, look somewhere else. But if you are looking for a fairly stable environment that you can have time with family and enjoy life. Cadence is the right place.

Advice to Senior Management – Passion of innovations cannot be counted by how many patent filed each year and the size of inventor's party. It is really how each employ embrace changes. Getting a good balanced book is important, but for a technology company with very culture of innovation will hurt long term growth.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Pay in not bad. Work-life balance and flexible.

Cons – Don't have much space to grow.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good pay and benefits; more focus on work than on play

Cons – Process oriented, bureaucratic middle management; poor communications between managers and direct reports; poor work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management – Open up, listen to and engage with employees!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – flexible working time and schedule

Cons – low salary compared to competitors

Former Employee – worked at Cadence Design Systems full-time

Pros – * Challenging Software Projects
* Smart People

Cons – * Project Teams can very distributed geographically
* Company's best days are over

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cadence Design Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Has a lot of flexibility

Cons – No accountability on management missteps

Advice to Senior Management – Cost cutting on excessive traveling for management

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great Distributed Global R&D. Very Smart Talented Engineers and AEs. Zero Politics, No Worries about Stepping over over-sized toes of purple Engineers.

Cons – Slightly Longer commutes if you are in mountain view or Palo Alto.
Not too many lunch meetings: No free food :-) (just kidding)
Macs are not fully integrated yet into IT systems (but getting there)

Advice to Senior Management – Subsidize the cafe food!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The CEO has turned Cadence around in the past 4 years in business growth, company culture and competitiveness in the market place. The culture is such that I look forward to go to work.

Cons – The senior.and middle management ( practically all male except for the HR branch and some sales execs.) do not recognize women force talent. Cadence needs to move to the modern era and recognize that women can do the technology centric jobs just as well.

Advice to Senior Management – Create an awareness and train the male workforce, from Senior management, middle management and the individual contributor level, about the value of diversity and put in place a program that recognizes contributions and communicates that female product marketing, R&D and product engineers ...etc. are an important and necessary part of the Cadence talent pool. They should be given equal opportunity for career growth and to contribute towards making a difference in the Cadence's innovation and business growth. Put in place an objective career growth path. The current process for career growth is ad hoc and very subjective.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cadence Design Systems

Pros – Very, very nice people
very family like atmostphere

Cons – Workforce is aging, and there is not much room to grow