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Decent but not great - Research and Development Engineer Ansys Employee Review

3.0
Jul 30, 2014
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Pros

- Work with very bright people. - Develop cutting edge simulation software. - Decent pay. - Free soft drinks.

Cons

- A lot of bureaucracy to deal with in a fairly small company. - Very top-down management philosophy. New ideas are expected to flow from upper levels down, rarely from rank and file up. - IT department does not have a culture of customer satisfaction. Does not work well with development. - Corporate strategy is to grow through acquisition instead of by creating new products/ideas internally. - Not a lot of love and affection lavished on employees.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

Flexibility with WFH/Hybrid depending on your job/team Great starting PTO + decent sick/family time Challenging work Smart, hard-working co-workers People work here for decades because it's a great work culture

Cons

It's a software company. Cramming features in at the last minute, and requiring long hours from testing & doc to meet deadlines, is frustrating but not unexpected Benefits are just OK - lost all of my doctors when they stopped having one local insurance option If you're in R&D but not an engineer, you are undervalued for bonuses No upward path if you don't want to manage - eventually you stagnate and have nowhere to go Agile dev process is challenging for documentation and testing and is not always realistic with big projects Huge uncertainty after Synopsys buyout - I've had bad experiences with EDA companies undervaluing some jobs in the past (testing/doc] so not feeling any job security at the moment

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