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Good money, bad management - Anonymous employee Ansys Employee Review

3.0
Jul 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people were mostly good to work with and good at their jobs. The salary and bonuses were pretty good. Your personal machine was always top of the line.

Cons

There was a lot of empire building that went on that detracted from getting things done. A lot of the managers were in constant competition to get their tool/idea to be adopted at any cost. There were also some reasonably high up managers that were totally incompetent, but nobody was going to do anything about it.

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Cons

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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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