Viasat reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,741 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 1,741 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
1.0
Feb 20, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some fantastic people on personal side of things and some very bright folks. If you can find the right department to work for, can be great place.

Cons

Weight of the world placed on people day after day. Unprofessional communication by management. Frequent firings and lay offs. This is a cut throat public company, don't let the image of what they are trying to convey fool you. Very few are able to play basketball or bike ride at lunch despite what they tell you. It's a full grind.

1.0
May 13, 2015

Bad experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

none that come to mind

Cons

Politically charged environment with no possibility for career advancement unless you play "the game" . Good performance and reviews are not recognized. Everyone is paranoid about making a decision and facing a firing squad. Too many bad apples in Sr. Mgmt positions.

1.0
Dec 26, 2023

A company in Decline!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I can't name one "pro" right now. This was a great company to be at as recently as a couple of years ago. Innovative, exciting work, with people that actually cared about the success of the company. Company tried to maintain that family style culture. People were not just your colleagues, but they were your friends, too. Over time that culture did get some cracks in it, but in general that was the way it was. Now, with the satellite failures, a bad acquisition, and wall street knocking at the door the company is scrambling. Not the same place as when i started 19 years ago.

Cons

Company is very much in decline. Not a financially healthy company. Because of strategy failures, and then real product failures the company is under a lot of pressure to get its finances in order. Viasat 3 failed, and was supposed to be the cash cow of the future. An Immersat satellite failed, and the Immersat network was hacked, and brought to its knees all under the Viasat brand. Three strikes your out. Selling off profitable Gov businesses to finance the failing satellite side. Not a lot is going right. The core competency of the company is supposed to be satellites, and they aren't that good at it. Viasat 2 had issues so it is not at full capacity. Viasat 3 is space junk. Near future will be some tough sledding that they probably don't recover from. They banked on GEO satellites. Some industry pushback is for LEOs. Less costly, and all your eggs aren't in one basket. They have a lot of problems internally right now. And they hired Guru the clown to try to sort all this out. I hope they recover somewhat, but I would take the under on that. Don't let them fool you they are going the wrong way.

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