Viasat reviews

Not quite a downside, but the stated company policy is to stay slightly understaffed. This allows the company to, for the most part, avoid layoffs. The downside of course, is that we do have to work harder to take up the slack. I've been with the company over 2 years and have not seen any layoffs in that time. Some of the people in my department talk about a small layoff that happened a year or so before I started. The rate of hiring has slowed considerably, but that is not unexpected given the state of the economy. The fact that we are still hiring at all is a good indicator. One other "problem" is that org charts are officially discouraged. While I understand the philosophy that we don't want to limit anyone by putting them in a "box", it does make it difficult at times to tell who to go to when you need to ask questions or seek approval.

This is a very very poorly run company. It is a sweat shop and a place that management uses to get rich. The communication is very poor. They lay people off in steal mode every 6 months. The management likes to sit around at meetings and talk badly about people. They promote these guys who know how to stab peolple in the back. The worst is when they intentionaly get into a mode of trying to fire people. They have lost court cases against them files by employees. Watch out