Shankar the water buffalo is speaking at the company all-hands right now, talking about Empathy and Respect. What an absolute joke. Open your eyes, ya carpet munching swamp gator, there are people here with families, mortgages, and years of loyalty to this company, and everything you say rings hollow. If you actually cared about the 'synergies' and 'products' you keep parroting, you’d show loyalty to the people who built the foundation you’re standing on. Instead, we all know how this will play out: H1B workers will be squeezed at minimum pay while long-time, higher-earning employees get cut loose. That’s not empathy, that’s exploitation. And let’s be honest, what exactly do you do? Besides pacing around and spouting corporate buzzwords about things you didn’t create, what’s your actual contribution? If anyone here deserves to be replaced by AI, it’s you.
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@275 former ansys, what is csg?
If this session was useless you should have seen the CSG all hands. The CSG head comes and says that we should not feel entitled to expect bonus and year end raises.
I have no idea how this smug, no-charisma ch--e rose so high within Synopsys. Every word he spews is bullsh-t.
@rp could’ve sworn he said it would be less than 10 but that also could’ve been another meeting with my team
@a1 I interpreted that to mean it would be greater than 10 %.
This results in uncertainty about future layoffs too, even for survivors.
We went from Shane the quarterback to Shankar the cheddar-stack. Why y'allz surprised?
Okay, you want truly anonymous feedback to your clown-show All Hands survey? Buckle up.
Q3 FY25 TPG All Hands Survey
Thanks for attending the Q3 FY25 All Hands. We’d love your feedback, blah blah blah. Sure. Here it is.
Overall Satisfaction: How satisfied were you with the All Hands meeting overall?
Very Dissatisfied. Nothing but hot air. Zero substance, maximum anxiety. It honestly felt like the goal was to make people more stressed, not informed.Clarity of Communication: How clear was the communication, especially regarding product updates and Q&A?
Very Unclear. It was just a word salad of buzzwords. No answers, no reassurance, nothing useful. The only semi-concrete line was that “10% is $$ savings, not headcount,” which still landed like a gut punch. Basically: “Don’t worry, we’ll still sc--w you, just in a different column.”Relevance of Topics: How relevant did you find the topics covered?
Very Irrelevant. Completely pointless. An AI chatbot could have spat out the same nonsense. And what was with the extra guy standing there like your personal hype-man? He looked like a stooge, parroting your lines and nodding along like a bobblehead.Openness and Transparency: Do you feel the meeting fostered trust, openness, and transparency?
Strongly Disagree. The only thing transparent was how desperate you were to protect your cushy seats at the top while everyone else takes the hits.Suggestions for Improvement: What suggestions do you have for improving future All Hands meetings?
If you knew layoffs were in play 18 months ago, own it. Don’t feed us corporate fairy tales until the last minute. Put it all on the table early, explain the plan, and treat people like adults. Stop shoving return to office mandates down throats, ask what actually works for employees if you want productivity. And maybe, just maybe, trim the fat in leadership instead of grinding down the people who actually do the work.Additional Comments: Please share any additional comments or feedback you may have about the meeting.
Stop talking about empathy and respect. Every time you say those words it sounds psychopathic because you clearly don’t mean them. Pay H1Bs properly instead of milking them. Quit firing experienced talent just to parade around shiny new hires. And as for your next-gen AI vision, it’s garbage. It doesn’t work, it’s not the revolution you think it is, and your obsession with it makes you look out of touch. Wake up.
he explicitly said calendar year when asked during q&a
@ap Hi what is the meeting today? What else did he say?
@aj I thought he meant calander vs fiscal year. Could have misheard him tho. Either way I'm prepping for the worst case since I'm coming from the Ansys side.
@am SNPS fiscal year starts november, so end of 2025 fiscal year is october.
@aj It is by the end of 2025 calendar year, right?
@af Shankar said today he wanted to complete the process by the end of this fiscal year so his team could focus on delivery of its goals
@ab What's your source for this? I heard November but not October
@OP The lay-off will be done before end of October, so it is only one month left. Be hurry to sharp your resume and apply new jobs. The job market out there are not very good.
This clown is preaching about how everyone needs to come into the office when, logistically, there isn’t even space in some locations. He’s a complete joke—just spewing buzzwords nonstop, with every sentence being nothing more than filler. My team is literally spread across the globe, and now our local office is parroting HQ’s push to cram everyone in. Everything he says contradicts itself. He seriously needs to lay off the butter and start thinking straight. His entire argument boils down to: ‘don’t argue with me, just see it my way.’ How about we flip that around, you rabid cuntchuck?
@a5 Yes. But the headcounts in the legal departments are just peanuts, almost negligible. Not to mention, a lot of them have already been outsourced as commission-based contractors. Sales team? Come on! They are money makers; given that Ansys and Synopsys serve drastically different industries, it is questionable that both sales teams can be merged efficiently. They must be crazy if they want to axe sales now. High-level sales managers will be the only ones to target.
@a4 We shall expect that. It aligns well with the grand strategy of outsourcing for every global software company. It's just like dishwashers, all made in China. All software will be made in India. No surprise at all.
Also, like—what the actual fudge? Why do we need 289 so-called 'leader heads'? The amount of bloated red tape in upper management is absolutely ridiculous. The board needs to step in and slash the leadership ranks by at least 60%. There is no reason for such an absurdly long ladder between the actual technical talent and the CEO. These people are just layers of mold stacking on top of each other. Cut out the unnecessary bloat at the top.
@a3 He also mentioned examples such as how the combined company doesn't need two legal departments, or two sales departments.
@a3 This seems they will cut more position in US.
@a1 Headcount-wise, less than 10%. Budget-wise, yes, 10% or even more. What I interpret is that directors and managers will be gone. High-performing IC with bigger paychecks will be gone. If you are sitting on a fatter paycheck (90% percentile+ of your level), you'd better apply somewhere else NOW.
Can't agree more. The trust has been completely lost. Don't look at what they say, look at what they do. Do they implement a quarterly performance review? Do they implement AI tracking? Do they raise our comp package to a better level from the gains of this acquisition? If the answers are all NO, he is talking BS 100%.
Well he did say TPG won't be cut by 10%? Did I hear that correctly?