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Posting for my wife She joined Qualcomm 1 month ago. She interviewed with Cadence around the same time as Qualcomm but got an offer recently. Here are few details Qualcomm: Role: Post silicon system validation, mixed signal systems. base: 115k Sign on: 40k RSU: 60k over 3 years relo: 8k location: San Diego Cadence: Role: Mixed signal design. base: 150k sign on: 10K RSU: 20k over 4 years bonus: 10% relo: 18k location: San Jose 1. Since she has already joined Qualcomm, will she be blacklisted by Qualcomm if she joins Cadence for future consideration at Qualcomm? 2. She wants to move to design in her career, her experience is mainly in Post Silicon, but where she does not envision herself working for her entire career. Is Cadence worth the switch for this situation? 3. She is on H1B, so visa transfer will be involved, is that an issue? Yoe: 4 years #tech #cadencedesignsystems #cadenceoffer #qualcomm #qualcommlife #hardware #semiconductor #semiconductor
Not worth going to EDA companies
As far as I know she has to do code in c++ in mixed signal. Is she ok with that? If the job location isn’t an issue, I would suggest to continue with Qualcomm. The problem with cadence is once she continues there, there will be no big career growth and job switching will be limited to synopsis and mentor as EDA in general sucks. Hope this information helps.
That's probably not true in ops case. Cadence does a lot of customize designs. I think ops wife wants to do design and not to mention the comp is much higher. Op, are you in bay area? If so, I think you can just quit q and join cadence. But don't think you can join back q any time soon.
She won't be working in EDA business at cadence, they have their IP business going strong for PCIe, USB IPs. Design job will be in that BU. She will be doing modelling and probably some verilog etc.
Qcom is best compared with eda. Avoid eda
Stay with qualcomm. Cadence is a dead company no technical growth. Incompetent brown-nosing managers who can't find job anywhere else stick around there in low wages. They keep fresh grads until competent ones wisen up to leave for better places. Cadence Mixed signal group is a shitshow. Be ready to do only bug fixes on 30 year old software for a dead end job.
Are you still with cadence?
@xyz098, are you talking about the Mixed Signal IP design group?
Stay with Qcom and she can internally switch to a design team (after a year)
Stay with Qualcomm or move to other product company likr amd,nvdia , brcm not to eda
Eda is too narrow. Don’t go. Qc in sd is #1, while cadence is bay is .....?
This is for ams ip, different story as eda. Cadence and snopysis have good reputation in terms of serdes.
Stay with Qualcomm. EDA might be good for stability but growth is stagnant.
Cadence is a chill place. I will go back and work after retirement. Not much to worry about no responsibility, send an email or 2. Show up every now and then , join cadence to keep you entertained with some drama, politics and spend some time in a day.
Stay with Qualcomm will be good choice , both in terms of money and growth
Thanks for your response, but was thinking in terms of domain change, going from Post Silicon to Design is a difficult transition to achieve, staying in Qualcomm could bucket her career into just post silicon in long term, what do you think?