Great place to work - Staff Engineer Synopsys Employee Review

4.0
Oct 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Synopsys has great work life balance, you work hard during the office hours, interact with your colleagues, sales, marketing to focus on goals ( make chips faster, smaller, less power hungry etc ) with no or little offshore teams.

Cons

Management has diversified into software testing/validation as opposed to EDA/CAD tools, so management looking for new growth areas. Maybe this diversification should have been done earlier.

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5.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent pay & benefits, challenging work and positive atmosphere.

Cons

Very large and sluggish bureaucracy.

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you want a CEO that specializes is tanking the stock firing engineers, getting the company hijacked by private equity, and cheating employees out of their bonuses using magic company performance math, this is the company for you.

Cons

The company’s greatest “pros” are also its greatest “cons”

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