On average, employees at Cadence Design Systems give their company a 4.1 rating out of 5.0 - which is 5% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. The happiest Cadence Design Systems employees are Application Engineers submitting an average rating of 4.3 and Senior Member of Consulting Staffs also with a rating of 4.3.
"Great place to work and good management."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Opportunity for new experiences, international responsibilities."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be honest."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Layoffs."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Some managers need to have a more technical background."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Professional atmosphere."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Cadences's reputation and performance has been poor for quite some time. I would avoid working for them except on contract basis. The company has had high management turnover, poor financial reports and weak products."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Various forms of dishonesty among certain people within management."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"It's been quite a while since I worked there, but if I was current management, I would want a more respected company in their field to buy them out."
"Cadence is a company that is struggling right now so I would not recommend it."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Cadence had a lot of good engineers to work with. It was a challenging job."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It is a lot of work but can be rewarding."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Over the past few years the restructures and downsizing made it a hard place to work at due to morale."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Get the company back on track. Build better customer relationships and stay with them over the long haul."
"Great place to work and great people to work with."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"The coworkers and the management staff were great while I was there."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be yourselves... the culture there likes people to be themselves."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"One too many reorgs for my taste."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Less of reorgs."
"Don't hire a hardware person to be CEO."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Great technology."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"They might not be in business much longer, Ineffective upper management."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Stop giving the company away. Realize the value of your software."
"Periodic/continual layoffs are hard to avoid and job satisfaction only declines if you do (avoid layoff)."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Work environment circa 2001."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I can't imagine they are hiring?"
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Work environment post 2001 (2001-2008)."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"We could do with much less management. Layoffs do well to make numbers look good but they deteriorate morale. This is a far cry from the company Joe Costello ran."
"Open and innovative environment with lots of opportunity to take on greater responsibilities."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Wide breadth of responsibilities. Job constantly challenging and a lot of real time problem solving and customer interfacing."
"Cadence develops world's best technology. No one ever comes close."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Working with world's best class technical engineers."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Unprofessional management."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Some managers need to have more technical background to manage technical engineers."
"Cadence develops the world's best class technology."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Some managers need to have more technical background."
"Bad managers to work under."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Nothing"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"RUN."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Everything, MANAGEMENT!!!"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Quit and hire competent personnel."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"I had the opportunity to make suggestions to upper level management for improvement and be heard."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Don't interview with them."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"When we were purchased by Advantage IQ, a terrible place to work."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"90% of the top level management was terminated in the last 4 months so I think they're on the right track."
"A great company with some challenges."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"The challenge of building an international online community with blogs and discussion forums"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I'd avoid it. Interview with competitor Synopsys -- much better culture there."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"My VP -- though my boss was fantastic."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Replace themselves -- they are managing Cadence into ruins."
What do you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"Opportunity to work on exciting projects and a flexible management."
What don't you like about working at Cadence Design Systems?
"At that time, there was a lot of uncertainty about the business model."
Cadence Design Systems has an overall rating of 4.1 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 82 Cadence Design Systems Review Ratings left anonymously by Cadence Design Systems employees, which is 5% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 98% of employees would recommend working at Cadence Design Systems.
Cadence Design Systems employees earn $85,000 annually on average, or $41 per hour, which is 29% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 26 Cadence Design Systems employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Cadence Design Systems Salaries by Job Title.
98% of employees would recommend working at Cadence Design Systems with the overall rating of 4.1 out of 5. Employees also rated Cadence Design Systems 4.0 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.1 for Rewards You Receive, 3.7 for Growth Opportunities and 4.1 for support you get.
According to our data, the highest paying job at Cadence Design Systems is a Global Director at $265,000 annually. Browse Cadence Design Systems Salaries by Job Profile.
According to our data, the lowest paying job at Cadence Design Systems is a Teller at $16,000 annually. Browse Cadence Design Systems Salaries by Job Profile.
According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Cadence Design Systems to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.
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