No job security - Product Manager OpenTV Employee Review

2.0
May 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I'm straggling to think about one

Cons

Very cheap company, almost no employee benefits outside of the typical health and 401k. As an example, there's no holiday party or holiday gift to the non executive employees (the executives received Foie gras and had their own holiday party) Questionable decision making by the executive team Waves of layoffs every year Highly political and bureaucratic environment Mid management is full of hypocritical arrogant that only care about their own survival

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5.0
Aug 8, 2024
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Pros

Fun company to work for

Cons

Can be insular and closed off

2.0
Nov 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Was a great place to work before Nagra (Kudelski Group) bought our company. We had multiple products, an office full of employees. Our teams were making huge goals such as our middleware team had implemented a milestone of over 200 million set-top boxed with OpenTV middleware worldwide and everyone in the office was a team. Advertising signed 3 major MSO's to its Eclipse Product and rolled out a new product Eclipse Plus to the market.

Cons

After Kudelski did a hostile takeover of OpenTV back in 2010, departments were split off, personnel were shrunk and the old remainder of OpenTV was the Advertising Software group. Inevitably like all the other divisions of OpenTV, it was sold off in Oct 2014. The remainder of OpenTV's products are now Imagine Communications. OpenTV was a great medium size middleware, software company that had positive cash reserves and happy employees. Nothing positive came out of the Nagra/Kudelski take over.

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