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3.8

80% would recommend to a friend

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Dave Shull

66% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

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2.0
Aug 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People at the middle level are pleasant but not particularly productive. Benefits and pay are good. Culture is good if you are looking for a 10 to 4 job. They give RSUs because the options would be worthless.

Cons

The CEO is a bully who comes up with some of the worst ideas imaginable and if you disagree he excludes you from the meetings and then fires you. He prefers younger weaker execs he can push around. The CEO pays himself more than $10 million a year and the stock has been in the same range for most of the time he has been there. Compensation is very good at or above the director level and it is used as a bribe to force your compliance. Most of the people around you understand that and do not fight publicly for what is right. You are forced to learn a lot of skills that you don't want to know, like how to keep quiet, how to say yes to bad ideas, how to ignore data and numbers. The rate of innovation is not fast enough to compete with the major players.

4.0
Apr 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Work/Life balance. 2. Decent salary. 3. Lot of talent people around so you can have plenty of opportunities to learn. 4. Perks and company events. 5. Work is challenging. 6. Late evening free food.

Cons

1. Fragmented UI code. 2. Innovation is no more. 3. Lot of legacy and complex code. Difficult to maintain. 4. Lay offs. 5. Contractors are more.

4.0
Sep 21, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I didn't know why some of the people here say negative about this company like it is going down, out dated software, top management has no-focus etc. Probably they don't have complete picture of the company business or they got laid-off so out of frustration they are saying something rubbish. Company has progressed so much in past several years. Some of the progresses are given below. 1) TiVo launched Multi-room solution with TiVo Mini and TiVo stream. And it also has both iOS and Andriod Apps to watch shows on your smart phone / tablets. 2) It launched TiVo Roamio which has been called as "Holy grail of set-top-boxes" and got highest positive reviews from end users. 3) TiVo experience is expanded to international markets. Virgin Media in UK launched 1.7 million TiVo boxes in market. ONO also launched thousands of TiVo boxes in Spain. 4) TiVo software now powered with IPTV capability. Com Hem is releasing TiVo boxes with both QAM and IPTV support in Sweden markets. TiVo is targeting many other international markets. 5) They have created a new VP position for innovation and on his direction TiVo prototyped first nPVR service. This is expected to launch soon. 6) TiVo is first DVR which is bringing "true" TV-Everywhere service by providing out of the home watching experience to end users on their phones/tablets with out any additional hardware support. Being part of the company and if you are not aware of these advances then you are a blind person.

Cons

It used to have Bonuses. Now they removed. For that size of the company, the salary paid to CEO is too much.

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