Successful company, but not a great place to work. - Anonymous employee Synopsys Employee Review

2.0
Mar 7, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great visionary founders and exec management. Excellent sales team drives the revenue and creates success. Good Engineering execution.

Cons

Not a great place for people. Recognition is capricious, more political than performance based. Seems to be little connection between performance and who gets promoted. Saw many top performers and some very long-term employees let go in favor of lower paid employees.

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1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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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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