ViXS Reviews in Toronto, ON

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

Pros – A lot of talent people who are willing to work hard.
flexible working hours.

Cons – lack communication between management and employee

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – A company with strong technology capabilities.

Cons – The payment is lower than the market.

Advice to Senior Management – The management need to be improved.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ViXS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent technology to work on across the board. Can learn quite a bit if you are proactive.

Cons – -The management is seriously lacking: Little to no leadership or management ability, obvious creation of fiefdoms. Little to no accountability on their part as well
-No concept of proper project/program management. Projects are always behind schedule and over budget
-Unable to stand up or push back to clearly unreasonable customer demands, which led to scheduling delays and slips. This caused a reduction in customer confidence (and ultimately some dropped projects)
-Massive lay offs are continuously being performed with no restructuring or sustenance program in place, leads to no confidence in the future of the company

Advice to Senior Management – Diversify. The media SoC business is not one where money can be made.

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 ViXS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very good collaborative colleagues. Good opportunities to learn technologies, especially low level firmware and device drivers.

Cons – Bad management. Very less stuff meeting. You don't know what you are fighting for. No vision for EE. No good process.

Advice to Senior Management – Find a buyer to sell this company is the best fate.

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

Former Employee – worked at ViXS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Get paid and support a family. Other than this, no pro. They laid off lot of people in february. They always lay off less than 50 people to bypass Ontario severance rules.

Cons – My superviser is one of few non asians, he did not treat me good. He told management to lay me off to save his job and now he becomes manager. He is harming the company big time.

Advice to Senior Management – Look at mid level managers, they are not doing much work and getting fat salary which they cannot get anywhere else. Discipline them and you will again do good.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ViXS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – interesting technologies, and that is about it.
I wish I could say anything else good about the company but I just can't

Cons – the worst managed company I have ever seen. Arrogant management, doesn't care about the employees and employee retention. Hires mostly oriental immigrants with low salaries.
The company is trying to compete in the big boys field but is far far behind when it comes to execution and quality, and doesn't stand a chance.
It advertises open positions all the time, but actually has had massive layoffs in the past few months, when the latest and the greatest was a couple of weeks ago.
Very bad workplace. It survived on investor's money and on government grants, but the money is running out.

Advice to Senior Management – close the the company, the sooner the better. you don't stand a chance.

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

Former Employee – worked at ViXS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – exposure for many technologies
Okay place for new immigrants

Cons – below market payment
prolonged working hours

Advice to Senior Management – Find a correct marketing target.

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

Pros – Great technological potential
Great influx of motivated employees
Great acceptance of unproven immigrant talent
Great location
Very fast moving

Cons – Management is not focused on technology
Poor customer satisfaction
Employee care standards are more than often overlooked
Inconstant policy moves
Employee communication not encouraged
Morbid cost cutting
Unrealistic reliance on off-shore workforce

Advice to Senior Management – Easy to derive from above

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 ViXS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Still growing. Employees hard-working and having change to learn more

Cons – Bosses don't care about details and internal relations of employees. Responsibilities are very confusing between each unit.

Advice to Senior Management – making more and valid rules to ask every employee to follow.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – As a new immigrant and little english, they gave me job. Almost no need to speak english at work. boss very good but company owner not good.

Cons – My salary very low but better than no job. Recently lot of people fired because company not doing good. hope they don't fire more people.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider lower pay for executives until revenue recovers

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