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Cadence has been in India since 1986. And though it is small–it made it to
the top this year due to one of the highest average salary levels in the
industry–Rs 11.3 lakh, against an industry average of Rs 4.3 lakh. It also has
the third-highest levels of perks and benefits, next only to Adobe Systems and
SAP Labs. But one of the major factors that accounted for its ranking is a very
high score on almost all the 14 attributes measured for each company.
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Despite this, the company has a few issues–prime among which is high
employee turnover, despite the obvious benefits the company offers. It ranked
11th on retention, which, at 89.1%, is just marginally better than the industry
average of 88%. On attrition (at 9.1%), it ranked 9th, below the industry
average (12.3%) but still not too good a score for the second-best IT employer.
And it ranked 16th on tenure–which at 1.3 years on an average per employee is
extremely low. In addition, while Cadence did well on ‘Preferred Employer’
rankings (4th) with a good 81.8% of its own employees voting it as their dream
company, it wasn’t too hot on ‘Preferred Company’ scores–ranked 7th with
3.9% of overall votes. Interestingly, while 12.1% of its employees voted for
Infosys Technologies, it also attracted interest from 4.9% of Hughes Software
Systems employees and 1.9% of Infosys employees.
The company did well on most attributes for which employees joined the
company, though the relative scores for job content, career development and
overseas opportunity were comparatively lower. However, it had the top scores on
most attributes, including compensation and benefits, facilities, resources and
support, professional competence of peers, technology, work climate and
organization culture.
The company’s major HR initiatives include a talent development program
which consists of a value rating system, succession planning, identification of
high potential employees, critical employees and "at risk" employees
(those likely to be actively wooed by other companies). In the end, all the
figures put together indicate that though employees rate the company highly on
most individual attributes, their overall satisfaction levels are not
commensurately high (ranked 6th on overall satisfaction and 11th on peer
satisfaction). There is a pointer to the future here–it is often easier to
meet specific employee aspirations when a company is small–HR processes have
to do more than just that as the company grows. That will be the challenge here
for Cadence.