Favoritism and egos abound. No career. - Engineer Viasat Employee Review

1.0
Sep 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits clean environment parking comfortable chairs

Cons

Most all positions are a job. No career here. Engineers are treated as a common commodity. They won't offer to pay you what you are worth until you notify them that you are leaving for another opportunity. They don't recognize what you have done. Instead giving you a series of monotonous tasks. Thus the numerous inexperienced internships and foreigners that they hire fit that bill. Do not be surprised if they ask you to pin the tail on the donkey as a team building exercise. I had two managers. The first treated me like a child and chronically verbally abused his wife on the phone. The second had the personallity of a stone.

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Viasat Response
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We were really surprised and concerned to read your experience of working at our Denver location. We take the feedback in our employee engagement surveys really seriously here at Viasat, and we note some disparity between your review and the wider employee experience. That said, we’ve passed your comments along to the HR Business Partner in your area and our leadership so we can take a closer look at any specific circumstances we should address.

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