Viasat reviews

Tons of politics, driven by powerpoint, egos, micromanagement from VPs, and meetings. Sharepoint Hell. Poor compensation, bonuses are rarely given to anyone and are so small that they are insulting to the few that receive them. Bad inter-office relationships. Carlsbad thinks that Denver is incompetent and Denver thinks Carlsbad doesn't know how to run a service based business. Denver has a history of massive internal power struggles. Especially within the Tech Ops and Engineering divisions. They will put you on ten projects at the same time and expect you to work until you drop dead. Upper managment believes in a carrot on a stick philosophy. They will make you promises behind closed doors that they never intend to keep just so they can exploit you a little longer. HR is incompetent and doesn't understand how the rest of the industry determines market compensation. No room for career advancement. Whatever job you are hired on for is likely what you'll be stuck doing there for several years. Good luck if you're thinking about working for ViaSat in Colorado, you'll need it.

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.