Viasat reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,742 total reviews)

Mark Dankberg

74% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Viasat has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,742 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Viasat employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
5.0
Mar 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

I was originally pretty dissatisfied with my experience at Viasat. I felt like I wasn't being listened to, I was being forgotten by my manager, and it felt like things couldn't get better. I managed to orchestrate transferring to another department and things are MUCH better now. A big part of that was a change in supervisor, but I also think that things company-wide have generally gotten better over the last couple of years. Communication with management is good, we've started to adopt better development practices, and I feel like I have a voice in my own career. I'm getting the ability to shape my path into what I want to do, and I'm getting support from my supervisor the whole way. I just wish it took less than 15 months for me to start feeling that way.

Cons

Things are still pretty scatterbrained. I'm not sure why we pride ourselves on our "ability to tolerate ambiguity"; if we just sat down and properly engineered things from the beginning we wouldn't do so much monkey patching. HR is also perennially a mess, especially our recruiting outfit; turnover is extremely high and it makes following up on candidates difficult.

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Viasat Response
8y
Thank you for taking the time to share your observations with us. We’re sorry to hear that you didn’t have a more positive experience when you started but are so glad you found a great fit in your new role at Viasat. It’s important to us that all of our employees have the ability to work on challenging projects and have plenty of opportunities to chart their professional growth. And while we recognize tolerating ambiguity may not be a fit for everyone, we believe it is one of our most valued characteristics, as it is a cornerstone to innovation. We hope you have continued success in your role and thanks again for the review!
2.0
Feb 16, 2018

Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The Founders, the people. Co-workers, peers, "customers" are individually some of the very best and brightest, kindest, sharpest, most intelligent, pleasant, grounded finest star performers I've ever had the pleasure to work with. The charity and community work and donation generosity and fostering of Diversity, and a sense of belonging at the employee level are nothing short of amazing and marvelous. The founders, still there, are not only league leading brainiacs, but real people. Down to earth, wonderful, family focused good folks.

Cons

Transitioning from a "Fearless Grounded Inspired Resourceful" band of start-up minded team players and take on the worlders to a big Bureaucracy has been very challenging. I know it's not easy. Everything I have ever read on management says that people don't leave jobs, they leave managers. We're no longer flat, agile, nimble, real. We're wasteful and frustrating. The fear of spending too much money or doing something wrong has created layers of very costly layers to provide adult supervision constantly for things we used to just go do. Can't be cost effective. Impossible. There are layers of huge problems of folks that cause problems, and won't lift a finger to fix or alleviate them. The "D Suite" (layer) gets a D. I read once that "companies will whip you like an egg white with one hand, and offer you a Stress Seminar with the other" This can't be unique to this company. But the old song we keep hearing is that such is inevitable when companies get bigger. One of the worst things anyone could or should ever say, is that's things are inevitable. So is failure when that status quo mindset is adopted.

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Viasat Response
8y
Growing so quickly in a rapidly-evolving industry has definitely presented us with some challenges! It means we’ve had to think carefully about how best to preserve our culture as we scale, but we believe we’re hiring the kinds of people who thrive on finding solutions and opportunities in situations just like this – which will continue to help us achieve our vision of connecting the world as one team. We sincerely appreciate you sharing your feedback. If you have any specific suggestions that might help make our environment and even better place to work please consider sharing them with your direct manager, the head of your business area, or perhaps someone in P&C.
1.0
Jul 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Casual attire and good benefits. Free gym if you attend a minimum requirement. Great technology being developed. Nice campus with onsite cafeteria.

Cons

Supply Chain - Management plays favoritism, management does know how to manage, creates low morale with constant org change that demean employees' position and skills.

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