Ixia Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – If you're lucky, you get to work with the latesc stuff in networking. Also, in my opinion, the company is doing great economically and you get a great feeling of accomplishment.

Cons – From time to time, we need to collaborate with teams from US and this might mean staying late.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for less than a year

Pros – Dynamic environment, with lots of people to learn stuff from. That is if one is willing to learn and improve his skills.

The rating system upon which, the managers are mainly evaluated based on the feedback provided by the ones they manage

Cons – Teams have a strong autonomy, so it kind of depends who your direct supervisor is. Some people can have a really hard time and be constantly under pressure if their manager is eager to prove himself.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than a year

Pros – Free Coffee and nice decor.

Cons – Small office with cliques.
No team spirit .
Bad manners with each other occurs far too often.
People do not treat each other with respect.
Some staff have unwarranted egos and self belief.
Do not listen to other opinions or new ideas.

Advice to Senior Management – Fire people who need to be fired
Break up cosy cliques and change the culture.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Lots of knowledgeable people from which you can learn.

Cons – A ping-pong table that kills productivity. :)

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time

Pros – Health insurance
Office location
Team buildings from time to time

Cons – Lack of information available on the project you work on and other projects related
No team work
Lot of bug fixing work - number of bugs raised and then resolved is the quality measurement tool
No work procedures
People are in general very poor profesionals
Lack of respect shown among people
Very large projects with a lot of dependencies among packages
Priorities are changed many times a day

Advice to Senior Management – Be transparent to the people in their team
Enhance communication skills - very poor
Encourage team work
Get involved in problems raised by people

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - highly skilled co-workers
- flexible schedule
- interesting projects in the area of networking

Cons – - relatively large technical debt

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - A good learning environment
- Most of the managers are OK
- People will generally help you

Cons – - To me it happened to have a stupid manager, fortunately she's not longer with the company
- Bug solving is the norm at Ixia, I personally think debugging skills are much more appreciated than the ability to right good code

Advice to Senior Management – - Be more serious when doing the employee evaluation, I noticed that some treat this as a burden and don't give it much attention, but for the employee it matters quite a lot.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Healthy management structure
- Challenging projects
- Good development environment

Cons – - Accent is on shipping on time with the desired features instead of quality

Advice to Senior Management – More consolidation after the 2012 acquisitions would be needed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ixia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – cutting edge technologies
decent benefits
nice facilities

Cons – very destructive work environment
permanent state of emergency
death march is the standard way of getting things done
artificially created internal competition destroys the spirit
guaranteed burnout after few years

Advice to Senior Management – Perhaps honesty is better long term strategy than trying to play people against each other. Competition should come from the outside, not inside.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for less than a year

Pros – - the money is good
- great team, often fun
- great place to learn if you are at the beginning
- great place to evolve.

Cons – - work-life balance kinda inclines to work

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company