Got a notification of another PSE 2026 SEPTEMBER today.
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@2a1I doubt the new severance package is going to be better.
Ansys has decided to renegotiate the terms of the 2nd PSE in France for a reason. They could have reused the agreement from the former PSE, which they are allowed to do and would have been much quicker.
Instead they are going through the whole procedure again, presumably because they deemed the first wave to have been too expensive.
@29y Synopsys and Ansys in France are separate companies still.
So two separate procedures and two social plans in parallel (economically motivated redundancies).
If the numbers are to be believed, that's 65 redundancies for Ansys (10%ish ?) and 11 for Synopsys (4%ish ?), so 76 in total.
The process will take at least three months since these plans started.
This is in addition to the 100ish positions that were already eliminated this year by Ansys and Synopsys combined, just a few months back.
On the other side, I would expect the layoff packages to be at least the same as before, if not better, which wasn't bad at all.
@299 So does that mean 54 people will still be laid off? I thought the PSE process would take another month or two. Didn’t expect the actual layoffs in France to happen this soon.
Unfortunately, for now, only high school students have figthing spirit in France.
Synopsys France announced 11 layoffs today. It adds to the 65 layoffs announced by Ansys France two weeks ago.
Der friends in beautiful France:
fyi, a number of colleagues were terminated last 2 weeks at Ansys Germany, too... we are now more than 20% down from pre-rif days in 2025. This really su-ks, but nobody is standing up against it.. all just comply and hope they make it thru the winter..
Hope you have more fighting spirit and more luck to stop the endless restructuring nonsense.
They are touting record numbers on profitability, revenue etc and yet they lay off without end!!
@gj
I know multiple ls-dyna focused application engineers who were layoff or moved
@js you got some brown stuff around your nose you might want to clean up.
Ansys customers will listen and will make you crash. That is when we create a new company and take away our R&D and ACE colleagues you are randomly layoff. You are going to see when the AI bubble explode.
@js come on Sassine, don’t be butthurt. You su-k. Stop crying.
@hs A year later and the Ansys funeral is still going. 'Biggest economic crime,' really? We get it, Ansys was perfect and nothing will ever compare. But it's gone, and posting your eulogies on an anonymous layoff board isn't bringing it back. Nobody's listening, least of all Ajej. Time to update your résumé instead of your grief journal. And if you hate SNPS so much, leave! You will be doing us all a favor. Get on board or please exit. We don’t need see weight!
Ha ha ha ha ha. Who cares!
Ajei sold a flourishing company to a sla-ghterhouse. Now Ansys is bleeding to death little by little. It's probably one of the biggest economic crimes in our times.
@gj LsDyna is fine.
@fm Ansys side or Synopsys? I heard LSDyna is also undergoing cut, but not sure. Too much rumor and skepticism, can't confirm.
@bt currently each week we are loosing colleagues in Germany. No one knows when it is done
Does anybody know anything about Synopsys France? If this is just on the Ansys side?
@b9 The rule of law does not apply when France's attractiveness is at stake.
63 + 65 =128, which is literally 20% of 650. The publicly stated 10% is such a lie. They’ve done 20% in the US, India and other countries and now they’re doing the very same in France. Nobody should believe henceforth when they say 10%.
@bx Same feeling. There is no integration at all. Just randomly laying off engineers and leaving lots of executive directors and VPs untouched. You may see there are more executive directors than sr architect.
What was the point of the merger if you're just going to get rid of a large chunk of the folks employed ?
I don't see any optimisation of groups or clear overlap of functions that should be merged/reduced. Just seems to be a random decision from day to day.
Sorry to hear that Ansys Fench folks will be impacted. How about Ansys Germany? We fear that the wave is coming.
I genuinely wonder how the French government can approve a layoff plan when it’s so obviously not driven by any real economic necessity. Apparently, “restructuring” can mean pretty much anything these days.
It’s been confirmed. 65 positions to be eliminated.
I simply do not understand why they can’t simply say how many people will be impacted this time around. It’s crazy to initiate a PSE just three months after the first.
@ak this is on the side of Ansys France.
@OP I am guessing this is for ANSYS, France? Or Synopsys? I think Synopsys just had the new CSE elections for the employee representatives, so that might have delayed things a bit?
We have no information about the count and roles. The work council just announced that they had guest information meeting on Friday, 25th. We are waiting for the information, but we know for sure that there will be layoffs.
Do you know how many will be impacted and what kind of roles? My French colleagues mentioned that last time it overwhelmingly engineers.