Mentor Graphics Reviews

Pros

Very interesting industry
Competetive remuneration and benefits
Opportunities to grow within the company
Good facilities/work environment

Cons

Frequent restructuring (causing some level of tention)

Pros

People are friendly and cooperative. A great campus with on-site cafeteria, gym, basketball court, library, and child care facility. Private offices for everyone, generous vacation time, and good benefits.

Cons

Layoffs happen frequently and are usually handled poorly - everyone finds out through the grapevine but management pretends nothing happened.

Pros

good work life balance
encourages training
internship program
beautiful facilities
individual offices - little or no cubicles
fast paced enviornment
diverse work enviornment
good compensation

Cons

lack of employee advocacy through out HR team. All HR issues are left to managers and HR only called in for termination and documentation of disciplinary actions.
constant changing of strategy within HR team

Advice to Senior Management

Your employees do not feel that there is an internal resource to assist them when situations arise. HR should not simply protect the company but successful HR teams can also foster a secure and open door policy through out their divisions.

Pros

Very competent peers
Excellent management practices

Cons

Scope of industry in terms of job opportunities is limited

Pros

Mentor has many wonderful leaders leading the company.
The Austin office has the best office view I ever knows.
Company encourage you to work from home if you would like to.

Cons

not many people in the office to talk with, because most of the engineering are application engineer.
freezing in the office during the summer.

Advice to Senior Management

I was lucky to have a wonderful manager for my internship.
However, I can feel the Technology Marketing Engineer are leading the Calibre product on the right track.

Pros

Family and Work balances well

Cons

People stay a long time - promotions are few - could be a very good thing too!

Pros

Great benefits, good work and personal life balance, good work culture and good people to work with.

Cons

EDA as a whole is not really a growing industry. Not a exciting industry, but a stable industry

Advice to Senior Management

No advice, sorry

Pros

Good Team work
Good work environment

Cons

In professional top management
Not being very well treated from the top management

Advice to Senior Management

You should appreciate your technical team more than you do currently

Pros

1. work life balance
2. friendly people, good atmosphere
3. good benefits, decent salary

Cons

1. few opportunities to grow
2. political

Advice to Senior Management

let people take risks and grow

Pros

- Good work-life balance. Used to have 24 days of FTO which are now cut down to a maximum of 10 but still accrues at a rate of 24 days per year.

Cons

- Very political environment.
- Rare opportunities for career growth.
- Mismanaged company with clueless middle managers (most of those with a Director title).
- Same work every day for 5+ years is really boring!
- HR has almost no role in the company. You only see them during an interview and an exit interview and pretty much nothing in between!

Advice to Senior Management

This is not one company but a collection of divisions with different work culture and practices under one big umbrella. I don't see any corporate culture that is common across divisions.