Not a company for high performing young engineers, been here for more than 6+ years. - Systems Engineer Viasat Employee Review

1.0
17 Dec 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great learning experience, great exposure, flat hierarchy gets you more responsibilities and roles

Cons

If you are a young and a high performing individual/engineer, Viasat never gives you a compensation based on the exponential increase in your roles and responsibilities. You are given a generic title irrespective of your roles,responsibilities and compensation is based on your “number of years of experience/number of years with Viasat”. There is no real incentive to work hard or take up more responsibilities when you are not paid for what you do but paid for your years of experience. To see this judgement based on number of years of experience even after being with the company and delivering for them for more than 6+ years is such a really disappointing thing to see.

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Viasat Response
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We’re delighted to hear that you are having a great learning experience and enjoy the benefits of our more flat org structure. As it relates to compensation, our goal is to offer a market competitive total compensation package for the jobs that our employees perform, regardless of years of experience. When compensation is reviewed a number of factors are taken into account including: expertise, performance, complexity of responsibilities, scope of influence as well as internal changes relating to growth and external market shifts. We want to encourage you to speak with your P&C Business Partner about the concerns you have. We believe in empowering our employees and cultivating an environment where our employees feel valued and heard so please reach out to someone who can help shed more light on the compensation process.

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