Awesome opportunity to see how we used to work 20 years ago
Pros
Strong culture, very open-minded, great diversity, respectful, good benefits, no pressure, money is not a problem.
Cons
This review is for the SIG group, which basically corresponds to Coverity enriched with other acquisitions in the security field. Good place if you want to rest, terrible if you want to learn or deliver anything. Very academic and outdated approaches. Coverity was oriented towards research and was specialized in C/C++, and several years later, they have not succeeded to do anything else, whereas they have invested on many other products and technologies. Some teams have been working for several years on projects which were never published. Some of these projects would have been delivered in 5 less times by skilled teams in modern companies. Other would just have been trashed right away with a better understanding of the market. R&D is not the only guilty. There is just no product management. Coverity was used to build products for developers, and they have never considered Product Management as a critical area. Talking UI/UX was shameful until recently. What would product managers do anyway? Everything is owned at the VP level, and no manager dares to say how their directions are not relevant. Everyone pretends and waits for the next decisions, which will invalidate the previous ones. Synopsys/SIG builds an offer for the stock market, not for customers. Products are sold because they allow customers to check requirements in their process. They are not really used. They also acquire lots of products, but they barely know what they are doing beyond the marketing sheet. And they break them after a few months, applying their 1990s recipes.
