Amazing past! one of the key innovator & best product of interactive television Nagra SVP leadership is a disaster... - Senior Software Engineer OpenTV Employee Review

2.0
Dec 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

20 years of innovation on Television - one of the very best Some of the smartest people in the business came out of OpenTV Impressive patent and innovation Very good tech with OpenTV middleware (OTV5)

Cons

Nagra is going to kill the business with extremely poor SVP German leadership Many of the smart people left to Start-ups, Google and Amazon Latest product team has zero clue & delusional - prior team was one of the very best in business - this situation is very difficult for engineering

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Pros

Fun company to work for

Cons

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2.0
Nov 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Was a great place to work before Nagra (Kudelski Group) bought our company. We had multiple products, an office full of employees. Our teams were making huge goals such as our middleware team had implemented a milestone of over 200 million set-top boxed with OpenTV middleware worldwide and everyone in the office was a team. Advertising signed 3 major MSO's to its Eclipse Product and rolled out a new product Eclipse Plus to the market.

Cons

After Kudelski did a hostile takeover of OpenTV back in 2010, departments were split off, personnel were shrunk and the old remainder of OpenTV was the Advertising Software group. Inevitably like all the other divisions of OpenTV, it was sold off in Oct 2014. The remainder of OpenTV's products are now Imagine Communications. OpenTV was a great medium size middleware, software company that had positive cash reserves and happy employees. Nothing positive came out of the Nagra/Kudelski take over.

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