Cadence Design Systems

Company-wide policies are employee-friendly. Especially during the pandemic there were multiple employee-friendly initiatives like monthly recharge days, covid resources, company arranged vaccinations. Even after 2 years none of us is forced to come to office. Company also gave additional cash allowance during covid.

Poor middle management.

No matter who works hardest or gets most results. Managers have already decided who is going to get promotion for next 5 years.

If you are not licking your manager's *** forget double digit hikes.

On top of that, technology stack is outdated in most of the projects. There is a saying at each job "you should either earn or learn". Here you will be doing neither unless you land up in one of the few premium projects.

Immediate managers are not interested in your growth and are too timid to take your issues to higher management.

Unless you are absolutely crazy about EDA or manage to get a great offer (which is possible as attrition rate is very high) or have a skill to be able to lick manager's boots, the place is not for you.

The middle management is going to be senior management in a few years / decades.

You should be careful enough to decide who has the ability to be a good manager. Promoting someone to a managerial post just because they have X years of experience is not a wise option. Right now they are ruining their own team. In the future they will be ruining the entire company.

An employee might be a great asset and might be very technically sound, but that does not mean he will be a great manager. There should be parallel career paths to grow in the company so that a strong technical person can grow without having the need to be forced into a managerial position.