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Need a major overhaul to restore Ixia to its past work-culture - Senior Development Engineer Ixia Employee Review

2.0
Aug 18, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

1) Salary and benefits are on-par or maybe a bit more than industry standard. 2) There are quite a few really smart people.

Cons

1) Absolutely no long term vision 2) Complete lack of respect to employee's preferences. You have to work on whichever module you are asked to, without any consideration provided to your interests. 3) Constant pressure and culture of patching up solutions in a hacky way. People are discouraged to think holistically and are pushed constantly to deliver private fixes within a few hours. Groups just tend to blame each other and push issues around because of this. 4) Resources are treated like manual laborers. Upper management cares only about people count and assumes that 'n' number of people will bring down the total work duration by a factor of 'n'. 5) Management is actually happy to lose developers in US so that they can backfill with more resources in India or Romania.

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5.0
Nov 27, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good people, professional environment, enjoyed working there

Cons

Occasional overtime, sometimes stressful deadlines.

3.0
Jan 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Have worked with great folks in a few sites that do work and play hard - like what they do, share well, open. Most managers seem to really want to work hard and share the success. Pay is good. Relaxed environment. New CEO in late 2014 looks good and will see what shapes up. Communication has gotten better. Some nice benefits in lunch perks, free soda's but many other companies are doing more perks in hi-tech.

Cons

2014 was a mess of a year for the company. One CEO ousted, interim CEO and then new CEO. Layoffs summer of 2014. Losing good folks to other hi-tech opportunities over past months. We are in a interesting niche field but many others looking to get in and play. 2015 will be a make or break year so I would wait a year to see how things go. Some reviews here mention negative reviews by folks that have been laid off but those that I knew that were laid off got good new jobs and are happy where they are now.

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