Synopsys Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Family oriented, Willing to work with your schedule to allow you to attend family events.
Results oriented, getting your job done is what matters most.

Cons – Some people are put into management that have no ideas how to manage. Just hope you don't get one.

Advice to Senior Management – Actually perform proper 360 peer reviews of management

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

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – CEO has vision and integrity, which causes everyone to follow and execute.

Cons – EDA is not glamorous. Company has grown too quickly recently..

Advice to Senior Management – Make the place more fun to work.

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

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than a year

Pros – stable revenues, care for employees welfare

Cons – some managers are inexperienced and incompetent

Advice to Senior Management – review management training programs. have more anonymous feedback of managers from their employees. Remove managers that are incompetent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Schedule flexibility. Synopsys provides solutions for all aspects of the semiconductor industry allowing plenty of opportunities for people who have expertise in a number of related fields.

Cons – Environment is male dominated. Not an exciting industry anymore.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow more work from home

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than a year

Pros – Stable working environment. Bonus is guaranteed. Company is successful in its field. better than average salary.

Cons – Not much room to grow. Upper management is stagnant. You have to work with twenty year old code. After some time, you do not learn new stuff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Benefits are pretty good, though they are now in downward trend for last few years.
You get to work on real high-tech and challening stuff and get to see technology trends and ideas which will be in consumer hands few years from now.
Company focused on stock price growth, let's see how it works out.

Cons – Company is becoming very miserly and stingy. 1% raises (after 3 years of freeze) on the year where we beat our goals and revenue targets handsomely shows where the focus is (yeah,, top guys get the cream).
25 years celeberation: a few glasses of wine, cheap party-hats and glasses from orientaltradingcompany.com !
Very top-heavy.

Advice to Senior Management – Start focusing on employess, and their needs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Very good technology, excellent work life balance

Cons – Slow to no growth within company.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to work on employee retention, with sufficient growth opportunities

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

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – flexible working hours and nice colleagues

Cons – poor management level in software development, very few career opportunities

Advice to Senior Management – nothing

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Synopsys full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people, always something new to work on, be part of electronics industry success, job satisfaction, good work/life balance, busy, competent management

Cons – no sufficient market growth, difficult business model, crowded inside and outside, great people, pay not great, very competitive, still too consensus building

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Synopsys full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Very good technical work and mentoring

Cons – Limited opportunities for growth in EDA

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