Hello everybody. I’m an R&D Verification Engineer at Ansys working for a team based in France. As a lot of you may already know, Ansys got recently acquired by Synopsys. I was just wondering if there’s a possibility of layoffs in this regard? Especially since testers are often some of the first people to go? Is there anybody here who’s company was acquired by Synopsys in the past? If yes, what’s your experience of that? And should I start looking for another job right now instead of having faith in the incoming management? In general, Ansys has been extremely stable as an employer for me.#engineering #software #swe #Synopsys #Ansys
There's almost guaranteed layoffs. Where else will they see $400M in savings? The question is really who will get hit. I think upper middle management will get hit more than individual contributors. Don't need two Directors of Marketing or Sales or Partnerships.
I agree. Sales would be the hardest hit. However no one else knows how to coordinate other than your own internal team. So the management would be okay at least for the short term, until they figure out the cream of the crop. Snps knows nothing about the vast number of tools ansys has, so I bet they will do just fine (unless snps decides to divest the tools that are unrelated to semicon)
If you happen to be laid off post acquisition SNPs takes incredible of people during layoffs. Especially in a crazy regulated area like France
Do not worry since you are in Europe. It is very difficult to layoff in Europe. But this is an opportunity for you to join Cadence or Siemens.
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Snps employee here. Imo retrenchment/layoff in snps is pretty rare, especially if you're r&d. It's more likely that we leave under our own accord 😅 Even for our past acquisitions, r&d retrenchment was almost unheard of. But other snpsoid, pls correct me if I'm wrong. PS. Upon acquisition, they may persuade you to resign before offering you the new employment contract. DO NOT ACCEPT. Try to negotiate to maintain your years of service.
I see, that’s good to know. I’m still a little worried cause I’m not a developer but a verification engineer (essentially automated tests/bug validation/verification). In any case, it’s good to know about the fact that I should not be resigning and instead try negotiating to maintain my years of service.