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      Cadence Design Systems

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      Cadence Design Systems reviews

      4.1

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (2,777 total reviews)
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      Anirudh Devgan

      85% approve of CEO

      79% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      Cadence Design Systems has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,777 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Cadence Design Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      3K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 31, 2008

      Big & slow, but with some good people.

      Member of consulting staff
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Knowledgeable colleagues in R&D, and decent compensation.

      Cons

      Cadence is a slow-moving place, where R&D projects take forever to come to fruition (or be killed) and decisions take a long time. Bureaucracy is thick. Communication between product groups and divisions is muddled.

      3.0
      Aug 19, 2008

      No loyalty, but interesting work and pays well!

      vice president
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits and compensation, interesting work, market leader

      Cons

      Frequent layoffs no matter how the well the company is doing, overpaid execs - almost obscene, quite a lot of politics at the higher levels of management, sales/eps driven

      3.0
      Aug 13, 2008

      Fun work in a company mired in internal politics and managed by executives that lack vision.

      Member of consulting staff
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The work is fun and challenging and many of the employees are bright and pleasant to work with. The atmosphere is generally very collegial. Work life balance is good most of the time. Some engineering managers have demoralized their teams with repeated requests for weekend work even as project schedules kept or exceeded pace. But that's not common. Overall the technical work at Cadence is very satisfying.

      Cons

      Upper management lacks vision. High-level technical decisions are sometimes guided more by internal politics than technical merit. Cadence has killed seemingly successful forward-looking projects in favor of stale legacy projects, often without technical justification or announcement. Business is always a factor, sure, but lack of boldness and risk now may leave Cadence eating dust a few years down the road.

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