• Culture & Values
• Learning Services
• Community Outreach
• University Recruiting/Diversity Outreach

These values serve as a foundation to guide our decisions and represent our worldwide standard by which all individual and collective actions are measured. Our specific values are as follows:

Customer Success
Customer success leads to our success. We strive to provide maximum leverage to our customers through value-added services, products and support. To create customer success, we:

• Proactively listen to an understand the needs of our external and internal customers.
• Provide cost-effective and timely solutions, products, and services to our customers.
• Are responsive and strive to make it easy to work with Synopsys.
• Make the service/support we provide one of our primary differentiators.

People
People are our competitive advantage. Successful individuals are the driving force behind a successful enterprise. Attracting, retaining, and motivating the best people will keep Synopsys at the leading edge of the industry for years to come. To maintain this edge, our employees:

• Always look for ways to make a positive impact.
• Encourage respect and compassion for each other.
• Embrace diversity.
• Are responsible and accountable for every aspect of our work.
• Hire exceptional people; provide them with challenges and nurture their growth.

Excellence
We attack our challenges with an eye to superior performance. Excellence is a mindset. Ultimately, the pursuit of excellence is not a destination, but a journey. To achieve this we:

• Accept the challenge of ownership, and do our jobs the best we know how.
• Cause people to say "wow!" every now and then.
• Ensure quality in every aspect of our goals.
• Take pride in our work, products, and mission.
• Strive to exceed expectations.

Innovation
We are advocates and instruments of positive change. Being innovative builds competitive advantage and creates new opportunities. As associates, we:

• Celebrate creativity and open-minded thinking.
• Encourage and support responsible risk-taking.
• Build on our successes and learn from our failures.

Teamplay
Teams are the catalysts for our ideas and actions. Every team member has the power to influence the group. We treat this power as a privilege and a responsibility. Teamplay is the foundation of an effective, successful, fun environment in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Team members need to:

• Focus on achieving the team mission.
• Support initiatives, implement decisions, and share the successes of completion.
• Look for ways to contribute, learn and support.
• Leverage the abilities of all team members.
• Energize and inspire each other.
• Foster an atmosphere of honesty, forthrightness and utmost integrity.

Openness
Openness facilitates informed decisions, understanding and trust. Sharing information across the organization facilitates our common goals. Personnel are encouraged to:

• Speak up confidently. Knowledge and ideas are important -- share them!
• Acknowledge contributions for their merits, regardless of their source.
• Recognize and support whoever owns the final decision.
• Give our managers, colleagues, and subordinates constructive feedback.
• Engage in open communications with customers without compromising the company strategy.
• Listen to other's contributions. Communications is a two-part partnership. New perspectives are valuable on any issue.

Social Responsibility
We encourage involvement both inside and outside Synopsys. Our objectives are to:

• Foster a healthy balance between our professional endeavors, family lives, communities and environment.
• Promote positive contributions to our communities.

Sustainable Profitability
Our business is based on a balanced perspective between short- and long-term vision. We aim to sustain the growth of the company, to increase our earnings, and to enhance our corporate environment through profitable investments. Our goals are to:

• Build a successful business model that encompasses the needs of our customers, our shareholders and employees.
• Ensure a rapid response to opportunity and competition.
• Provide a dynamic, responsive organization that challenges us while we enjoy the rewards of personal growth and high quality of life.
• Invest in a balanced portfolio of short-, medium- and long-term business opportunities of measured risk.

Learning Services
The Learning Services Department is committed to providing opportunities for Synopsys employees to fulfill their highest potential. We support their development through a variety of programs that stress participative learning and the practical application of new skills and concepts. Programs and development opportunities include Team Development, Stanford Instructional Television Network and our own Infrastructure Training. Employees can participate in courses such as:

• Exercising Influence
• Decker Presentation Skills
• Interviewing Skills
• Synopsys Management Institute
• Planning and Managing Projects
• Franklin Time Management
• Career Management
• Business and Technical Writing
• Team Communications
• Negotiating Conflicts

• Devoting corporate and individual resources to help others
• Advocating (fostering) and effecting necessary social changes.

The company encourages and supports employee participation in carrying out this mission, and intends to make a lasting difference.

Through the Synopsys Corporate Giving Committee, we're active in numerous outreach projects. Within the last year, volunteers:

• Spruced-up the interior and grounds of the San Jose (CA) Family Shelter which provides temporary housing for families in transition.
• Removed storm-related debris and trash from the Coyote Creek in San Jose.
• Sponsored a relief drive for the homeless and injured people in Kobe, Japan, following January's devastating earthquake.
• Participated in San Francisco's Aids Walk.
• Completed a Summer food drive to support the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Synopsoids (as we like to call our people) also regularly donate new and used clothing and small appliances to the local community services organizations for the benefit of low income families.