SIG: Future Ex-Employee - Anonymous employee Synopsys Employee Review

1.0
20 Sept 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you want a throw back work environment to circa 1995, this could most certainly be a pro

Cons

SIG really should have its own section on this site. As all the other SEVERAL negative posts about SIG leadership are much easier to ignore with all of the positive posts re other orgs within Synopsys. The current state of SIG is simply astounding. No one can truly comprehend it. The SF office says it all with it's low energy, blandness and lack of care by those in charge. Some "leaders" are given the reigns to make VERY bad hires with the wrong experience since they have no idea what a particular job really entails. And these so-called "managers" get to make really bad decisions, blame others AND don't have to come in to the office for more than a few hours per week. WHAT IS GOING ON?!?! The leadership and its cronies continue to exist and run this place without a clue or a care in the world about all of the unhappy, frustrated employees below senior mgmt. And the insane, toxic reality is that HR seems to allow it?! And partake in it! They either toss people out who don't agree with them or pose any type "threat" to their beliefs and methods. (New ideas or suggestions are outlawed here at SIG). OR they just pretend that those who leave on their own weren't worth keeping anyway. Soul-less. It's beyond belief how this place really operates and gets away with it. Who is really checking this leadership vs. down right ignoring it? There are truly so many things wrong with the structures and processes. They blame most of this on HQ instead of trying to change anything on their own. Because they are fearful of change and it shows. There are just so many cons about each and every aspect of this org and leadership that there are too many to list. We just want to know when someone is going to wake up and do something about the leadership. Why haven't you interviewed all of the people who have left to get the real truth?! We keep acquiring companies and the lack of real management who knows how to run a company is causing angst and is out of control.

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Synopsys Response
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Thank you for sharing, we are disappointed to hear about your experience. We take all employee feedback very seriously and will open more channels of communication for employees to engage. We can always do better and we recognize that and hope to grow and change. We are approaching our quarterly meeting and as always, we will engage with all SIG employees – we hope you’ll join us. We’ll address your question about what is going on in SIG, feedback we have received via our annual survey, and open the floor for new questions. We see that you’re based in San Francisco, our door is always open and we would love to meet with you to discuss your feedback, hopefully before you are an ex-employee!

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