Flexible, autonomous work environment - Anonymous employee Viasat Employee Review

3.0
Jun 16, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you're a self-starter and don't like a lot of management, it's a great place to be and grow. They value autonomy, so even if you're junior-level and don't know what you're doing, they won't mentor or manage you - so you can experiment and mess up all you want until you figure things out.

Cons

They hire on a whim, so you end up with people they "like" who have no real expertise or position to work in, and when they are lacking resources in other areas (personnel), they will disregard it and make employees work regular overtime.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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