Pros: Learn all the tools, and free to try new tools. Best Chinese lunch in BayArea. Nice work - life balance if your group is not busy,

Cons: Old working style. Old flow, don't want to change design. Work overnight is there is tapeout coming up. No working from home allowed in most of the group.

Pros: -- Good work-life balance -- Good gym, cafe -- On-site app support for all major tool vendors ( Cadence, Synopsys )

Cons: -- Low salary, bonus etc etc compared to other same-sized companies -- No visibility outside manager level. -- Lack of transparency in project assignments, career prospects, team meetings etc. -- Design quality entirely on manager discretion, no internal approval flows, audits etc

Pros: Competitive salary and benefits are not bad, although they could be improved. Every designer had good chances to learn and to deploy new design techniques. Training is offered regularly.

Cons: Time for completing a design is becoming shorter and shorter and sometime to get these targets the work is becoming very hard. Quality of results are lower than expected. There are few career advancement opportunities.