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
1.0
Apr 18, 2015

Run for your life

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice campus, cafe, coffee shop, some good people

Cons

Overworked and underpaid is the motto. And you will be heavily overworked and the pay is not sufficient for living in SoCal. Management is technically incompetent which makes projects more time consuming, over budget and buggy.

2.0
Apr 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, great campus, casual dress code

Cons

I would not recommend working for the recruiting department. If you are interviewing make sure to ask a LOT of questions. You can expect to work very long hours to even come close to feeling caught up, the phone screens are unnecessarily long for what is actually needed to find out if a candidate is viable so you end up spending hours on the phone with no time to source, there is very little training, the work load is ridiculous and on top of that the managers micro-manage and nit-pick everything their employees do. If you submit an offer to be approved you can expect to be criticized about what you didn't do right instead of congratulated for your accomplishment. I should note that what is "right" changes with the wind here...there is no consistency. They find reasons to personally and professionally attack their employees, even the hardest working ones. On multiple occasions I witnessed each member of recruiting management gossip about their own employees in addition to staff outside of the department (including other managers and executives). They are unprofessional and disrespectful.

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Viasat Response
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Within the last year we've received a lot of feedback regarding our recruiting process and department in general. We are in the process of thoroughly examining both and the result of this inquiry will likely be some very radical changes. Thank you for taking the time to offer your feedback. Please know that we care and are working to make things better.
3.0
Mar 27, 2015

ViaSat

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool surfer culture...the beach is close. What else could I say to fill 20 words.

Cons

No Accountability, lots of cons. I hope this is anonymous. Bad pay...

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