TiVo reviews

- Ridiculous number of managers for a company the size of TiVo. - You will work with some of the worst contractors in the world. - Company consistently overcommits to work and underestimates the effort. - No matching 401K. - Headquarters is located in a swamp. - The code base is large, complex and over-engineered in many places. - IT department is awful.

- Software development is slow and lacking in quality (witness the many bugs reported in the recent Premiere launch). Not sure if this is due to a lack of resources, sub-par skills possessed by the existing resources, or some combination of the two. - Lack of accountability for mistakes and/or poor performance - Company is generally reactive instead of proactive (we better do X because so and so just did it) - Lack of any true visionary types to help chart TiVo's future course - Often suffers from "analysis paralysis" in which new courses of action are endlessly discussed - IT department is only interested in maintaining the status quo instead of moving things forward - we're still using XP and Office 2003! - Seems a bit top heavy with too many high-level people and not enough lower-level people doing real work - Suing Verizon and AT&T (and by extension Microsoft) before the Echostar case was definitively won seemed to be more hubris and chest-thumping than good business sense