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Too much politics and internal overhead

Principal Product Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Cadence Design Systems for less than 1 year
July 25, 2011
San Jose, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros

One of the leading EDA company.

Chance to move around and get exposed to different areas.

Some good people to work with within the company.

Some good customers to work with.

First to come up with solution for new features and try it out.

Cons

Internal politics at manager level and above.

Too many overhead because of the politics.

Only few people are actually working and making the difference.

Recognition is not given to the right people because of politics and internal relations.

Advice to Management

Get rid of the politics.

Make sure everyone works with the same goal to improve the products as a whole solution rather than individual product to grow the company.

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