Cypress Talk

Today, there was pre placement talk by Cypress Semiconductors. The person who presented (his name was Pashupathy, I think) was a VP at Cypress. He had worked around 14 years at Cypress in San Jose and then returned to India to start the Chennai office.
He seemed very excited about his job. He told us that Chennai office was not just a BPO/KPO type of thing. It handled things that were important for Cypress. He mostly seemed to handle investments, M&A etc. for Cypress.
This looks like a nice company to work for. However, given my background, if I decide to go to a Tech company, I would rather go for yahoo/google/microsoft etc. which are software companies.
It is a complicated tradeoff to make between earning a lot of money and having a relatively cool life. (Work is interesting in any case, I believe)