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Cadence Design Systems

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Horrible place to work - Anonymous employee Cadence Design Systems Employee Review

1.0
8 Jun 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good people at the individual contributor level. Everyone is friendly and work hard.

Cons

Horrible management. Do not care about the employees at all. Only thing that matters is beating wallstreet forecasts. Manage by fear philosophy. Always telling people they are not doing good enough. Always looking to make employees do multiple jobs and work exceedingly long hours. But don't want to reward them for doing it. Good people are let go every year purely to cut salaries. Looking to replace experienced people with new college grads. Will catch up with them someday. A very short sited company, don't plan past the current quarter or year.

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Pros

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Cons

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