Silvaco Reviews

3.2

39% would recommend to a friend

(51 total reviews)

Dr. Babak Taheri

52% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Silvaco has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silvaco employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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51 reviews
2.0
24 Nov 2018

Used to be a great place to work. Not anymore.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A lot of great people still there. Don't know for how long.

Cons

Late owner/founder of the company knew what he was doing. Hired a lot of smart people and gave them a lot of freedom. People accepted lower than average salaries for unique working conditions. Everybody had own office. Nobody cared how you do your job as long as you delivered. Challenging problems to solve. Managed to compete against companies 100 times larger with 100 times more workforce as people were really loyal. Low staff turnover as people were interested in what they were doing. Now new management decided to cut costs. Moved all the people to cubicles. Put a rope around their necks with surveillance and time control. Salaries are still low though. Average company with lower that average salaries. Most experienced people are leaving. Those who remain are now doing time management instead of work. Don't know where this is all going. Wait until they roll out the system to all the offices. More people to leave most likely. Shame really, used to be a great place to work.

2.0
17 Oct 2016

Wasted time

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Pros

They do a green card! Each employee has a cabinet! No pressure (I am not sure if this is a good thing). Most of employees come at work after 9 AM and leaving 5 PM. Maybe a good place before retirement (you get a paycheck and there is no pressure at work). If you speak russian you do not need to learn any english (a lot of russian speaking guys from Belarus) At least before it was not real interview process... to get into company you just need to be related to someone working there. Most old timers bring their relatives and friends from former soviet union. So it looks like a big happy family... sort of :)

Cons

Base salary is below market. No bonuses... you just get base salary and this is it :) Old technologies and old products with customer support. Poor quality and no real QA. No growth or career opportunity. Employee are not motivated

1.0
10 Nov 2016

Poor management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Friendly coworkers -Flexibility but maybe that's a bad thing since most of the products suck

Cons

-Below market pay -Poor management with bad communication -No transparency from management -Terrible benefits -No culture -No Structure -No processes for many things -Too many products that do not sell

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