Company: Oracle
Date: 2011-01-12
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Interesting times in hardware design...
Pros: Lots of opportunity to do new things
Lots of chances to learn new things
Cons: Mostly internal CAD tools that are only kept around seemingly to justify someone's job. Original devs long gone so support engineers are very reluctant to make changes or improvements.
Management does not see tools as an impediment to creating high speed CPUs.