TSMC Physical Design vs Cadence PD solutions engineer offer:
Hi guys, I wanted your thoughts on these two offers: TSMC Physical Design vs Cadence PD solutions engineer Offer Details: TSMC: ~140-145K base + ~20% bonus, 15k sign on, No RSU {ESPP} San Jose, CA Cadence: 135K base + 15% bonus, 20K Relocation, 10K sign on, RSU 4K Austin, TX Personally I'm tending towards TSMC position as it's more PD design oriented, team is good same location but Cadence company culture, WLB is better. yoe: ~4 AE Current TC: 🥜 #interview #hardware #offer
They could go a little bit higher. I am surprised at 4K RSU at Cadence. If there’s no rush, you can try for Apple for PD role. Afaik, they are still hiring. Good luck OP! I don’t have first hand experience, but a colleague of mine said the WLB is pretty bad at TSMC, he was in the PD team at Austin.
Also, curious as to why so many are leaving Mentor Graphics/Siemens off lately. Has there been any particular reason besides TC jump?
Thanks for the comment, I feel the hiring criteria for Apple is still higher in the interviews(in terms of PD experience) The Hardware teams at TSMC in US is kind of new and emerging, so hoping culture might improve in the next year's. Bay area teams are relatively better I suppose. Yes mainly TC jump, also EDA is very competitive and revenue margins are thin. You'll know if you work in an EDA company. But lot of engineers have joined the R&D team here.
Thanks for the reply. How’s career progression for R&D roles in EDA companies? Is it a good segway to SDE roles? I would assume the work would be rewarding in terms of challenging work. I could be wrong though. I am in a CAD role at Intel, and wondering if EDA R&D role be a better step than SDE since it won’t be a complete domain change and I could bank on existing work experience. Would appreciate any insight.
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As far I know, the guys who join R&D have CS background at the early/mid (<6 years) career level or R&D from other companies. The R&D guys also work in same EDA domain for decades since it's relatively stable. The people who jumped from PD to R&D have 15+ years experience and very few in number.
Cadence has much better roles for PD. Even AE teams will pay more than this.
Could you explain what are the better roles for PD? You mean PE? This is Austin location, San Jose location might pay more.
Yes, AE & PE
Did you join tsmc in the end?
I'm shifting from AE to PD, so that might be a factor. Any other reason?