Does Viasat offer bonus pay?

Viasat is great company for the following reasons: - Interesting projects which required the study of new techologies - Good salaries and benefits package which includes bonus, health+dental insurance, working from abroad, home office equipment cover

There are not enough training packaged for new joiners. If you join Viasat, it means that you will have to spend a lot of time just on studying.

They did pay fairly well and had good benefits

ViaSat was a good company for a while. Like any company that wants to grow, they made some questionable decisions. On top of that, they had some bad luck with satellites that they launched, but failed to operate. A merger with Immarsat led to 350 people being laid off in March 2023. Two satellite failures that were announced in June 2023 led to a layoff of 800 people in November of 2023. Many talented, hard workers were laid off. A large portion of these employees helped build the company and worked there for several years. Even though they claimed that they were laying people off of all ages, they definitely laid off employees that were there a long time and probably wanted to shed some of the higher salaries that those employees had. Given that, they did provide a good severance for many of the employees that were laid off. Before the layoffs, the company became more demanding over time and wanted more time and responsibilities from employees with a decent yearly increase in salary, but nothing substantial and it hardly kept up with inflation. They did not offer any bonuses unless the person was with upper management. Their stock has been in a freefall for the last 9+ months. Right now, I would not suggest for anyone to take a job there because they appear to be floundering and additional layoff seem inevitable.

Truly great people. Friendly and willing to help each other. Excellent benefits. A beautiful campus, with lots of amenities (best I've ever worked at!) Opportunity for professional development and advancement; moving to other areas of the business is welcomed.

Leadership lack of strategy. Siloed departments make it challenging to drive change. Recent downsizing has left some low morale in spots. Lack of structured performance management and bonus structure (subjective decision making).

Hybrid work place for employees

Poor bonus scheme, no longer attractive

Good rate of base pay

No bonus despite high performing

Great opportunity to work with groundbreaking technologies. Good atmosphere. No blaming company policy. WFH 3 days a week.

Not clear career opportunities for growth. No bonus policies.

Beautiful campus, down to earth work environment, flexible hybrid work environment, friendly co-workers, advanced technology, nice benefits like unlimited PTO & affordable health insurance.

Feels very unstable and everyone is constantly in fear of layoffs. They rolled out a voluntary leave program last year and this year canceled raises for everyone (except upper management who still got their bonuses). Hard to stay motivated when you don't know how long you will have a job...

none to speak of this year

viasat just announced there will be no raises for the work force but bonuses are on track for upper management

Fair compensation, flexible work environment, great benefits.

Highly political, not much room for growth (9/10 times they will hire external candidates over internal), shady upper management. Seems like no one knows the company's future or direction. Managers do not care about contributors' career growth; most of them are coasting until retirement (i.e., not providing any value but wasting time and energy). Will be down your throat on a $20 travel expense, yet spend $$$$$$$$ on private flights for their executives. Will offer your same position to an external candidate a year later for $40k more in salary, but only give you a $5k bonus. Feels like different business areas are competitors rather than all working for the same team (Viasat).

The funny thing about the "pros" which I experienced at Viasat is that not one of them came from Viasat's leadership enabling an environment conducive to the success of its own employees. Viasat has a mostly flexible environment. It varies from team-to-team because there is no structure/standard at Viasat (at all). I enjoyed essentially making my own schedule, with the exception of mandatory virtual meetings. I made great relationships with the people in Viasat's Engineering teams. There were* a great deal of intelligent Engineers and Engineering leaders who were focused on doing the work without paying mind to the political corporate BS I had to deal with on the Talent Acquisition/People & Culture teams.

Where do I begin? - Total compensation is below market. - My manager would regularly gossip about other people in the company and make them the object of ridicule in my meetings with my Talent Acquisition team. - The Recruiter who guided me through the hiring process flat-out lied to me on several occasions, and this person is a manager who is widely regarded and respected as a leader for Talent Acquisition. She told me that I should expect stock rewards and cash bonuses annually. That doesn't even exist in TA. Nobody receives an annual bonus, which leads me to my next point. - Viasat only values its Engineers. That's great for the Engineers and truthfully I connected best with those people during my time there. Unfortunately, the rest of the company is disregarded. - The HR and Talent Acquisition departments are wrought with soulless, disingenuous, talentless politicians who are greatly threatened by anyone who comes in to challenge the norm. Which is ironic, because Viasat and its Talent Acquisition talking heads will *relentlessly* preach the company's "core values," which include CHALLENGING THE NORM. I was regularly criticized by my manager and his boss for bringing honest ideas to the table in a respectful way. - I would frequently be forced to sit in mandatory meetings with no agenda where we accomplished nothing. These mandatory meetings were taken as an opportunity for "leadership" to grandstand and posture. They would regularly talk to us like children and provide us with no value whatsoever. - TA and HR teams regularly talk disrespectfully and toxically about the rest of the company. Not just other teams, but specific people. I couldn't have a single meeting with my manager without him absolutely trashing people on our hiring teams. It was so toxic. - The company likes to use the word "ambiguity" as a scapegoat for their lack of organization and attention to detail. Everything is a giant mess at Viasat. - Training doesn't exist. The "training" I was given at Viasat was nothing more than "sit in several meetings consisting of several hours each, while we play a video for you to watch." And the video would regularly be some marketing/sales mumbo jumbo garbage. - Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion measures in hiring are non-existent. I worked in Talent Acquisition for over two years and not once did a single leader in TA go over a plan with me for DEI. They have adopted a tool called "Textio" which every single TA leader speaks poorly of (because it's useless) and nobody uses as a standard, anyway. It's a joke. - Viasat loves to preach how encouraging they are for internal career opportunities for all! Except that isn't true in practice, at all. Every single time I facilitated an internal transfer for someone else, it was a major battle between the current manager and the new manager's teams. Oh yeah, and when I personally had an internal transfer opportunity, my Talent Acquisition leaders and HR Business partner colluded to deny me even the opportunity to interview for the position. And then my manager lied to me about the entire process, and HR confirmed that he lied to me. Then I was laid off. Hmm, what a surprise. Don't waste your time with this JOKE of a company. They don't know their a-- from their elbow and are driving it straight into the ground. After acquiring Inmarsat, they created tons of redundancies in the company and aid off 20%+ of their workforce in 2023. Oh, and their significantly delayed launch of their third satellite ended in a catastrophic failure. They're doomed and they do not care about their employees one bit.