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Working at Synopsys in Mountain View, CA: 23 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Mountain View, CA Area

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On average, employees in Mountain View, CA at Synopsys give their company a 4.2 rating out of 5.0 based on 23, whereas overall Average Rating of Synopsys is 4.3 out of 5.0 based on 67 Synopsys Review Ratings. The happiest Synopsys employees in Mountain View, CA are Technical Interns submitting an average rating of 4.6 and Digital Design Engineers with a rating of 5.0.

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4.3
Average Rating
(based on 60 Synopsys Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.4
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.6
Person You Work For
4.4
Rewards You Receive
4.0
Support You Get
4.4
Way You Work
4.4
Work Setting
4.3
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Working at Synopsys in Mountain View, CA: 23 Employee Reviews

Synopsys Employee

"Disillusioned ex-employee"

What do you like about working at Synopsys?

"The relationships I developed with my colleagues."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Prepare to not have a balanced life. The company doesn't care if you have to work 24 hours a day and you had better not whine about it. A job there will affect your physical health and mental well being."

What don't you like about working at Synopsys?

"The political arena, the freezing of salaries, the unrealistic workload, the incompetence of some of the managers, the endless layoffs, etc. etc."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat your employees with respect and appreciation. A company is only as good as the people it has working there."

Voice Engineer
Person You Work For 4.6 / 5 People You Work With 4.7 / 5 Work Setting 3.8 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1.9 / 5 Company Culture 5 / 5
Way You Work 4.1 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

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Synopsys (67)

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1.9 Lowest Rated in this Industry is CareCore National (10)
3.8 Average of All Companies in this Industry (6,335)
Network Engineer
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5
Senior Software Developer

What do you like about working at Synopsys?

"Solving difficult algorithmic problems, requiring mathematical and physics knowledge and intelligence."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Study related domain knowledge that is relevant to the hiring team."

What don't you like about working at Synopsys?

"Low growth opportunity, low growth industry, reluctant to use updated technologies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More open to new technologies, find new innovative ways to create revenue."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Director of Information Security

What do you like about working at Synopsys?

"Synopsys is a stable high tech company with a solid foundation in the EDA industry."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Go for it! Synopsys is a great company to work for."

What don't you like about working at Synopsys?

"I like everything about the company, the people, management team and company vision."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep doing what you are doing so well for the company."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
R&D Technician

"Overall good place to learn the technology."

What do you like about working at Synopsys?

"You get to work on new and cutting edge technologies."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Must have good understanding of the technology and your field."

What don't you like about working at Synopsys?

"I think the growth opportunities are somewhat limited in this company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Overall management style is good. Management has knowledge about the current challenges."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Director of R&D

"Synopsys is a great company to work for. The company is technology driven, employee friendly and a leader in EDA industry."

Person You Work For 4.3 / 5 People You Work With 4.3 / 5 Work Setting 4.3 / 5
Support You Get 4.3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.3 / 5
Company Culture 4.3 / 5 Way You Work 4.3 / 5
Staff Software Engineer

"I have worked for Synopsys since 2005. It's a good company with excellent work environment."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Technical Intern

"Each employee in the company was having much knowledge and was friendly. It was a great atmosphere to work with them."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
CAE Engineer

"Overall, I give a good rating to Synopsys. I am working here from 2010 and from then I got opportunities to learn new things. But I feel bad that the company has less growth for the skilled employees."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Synopsys Employee

"It's a great company to work for and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the EDA market."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Synopsys Employee

"I have been working in Synopsys for more than 5 years. This is large company with more that 5 000 employees in all over the world. I can qualify Synopsys as a very high level company with the great corporate governance."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Synopsys Employee

"I work for Synopsys for 8 years. It's a good company with interesting projects, strong ethics."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Technical Intern

"I worked as an IT Technical Intern at Synopsys during summer of 2014."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Synopsys Employee

"It's a great place to work! But management is all about patting themselves on the back and taking all the credit (and compensation) while telling the rest of us their "hands are tied" regarding our career growth. Lots of lateral promotions."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
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