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Hughes Network Systems

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Hughes Network Systems MTS2 Software Engineer reviews

2.8

0% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)
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Hamid Akhavan

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12 reviews
3.0
Sep 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people around you. Great team lead (Obviously depends on the team). Interesting/challenging technical problems. Great work life balance

Cons

Upper management that treats you like kids. Traditional work culture that can feel a bit slow at time. Pay is bad.

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Hughes Network Systems Response
8mo
It is fantastic to hear that you are surrounded by smart people, enjoy challenging technical problems, and have a great work-life balance—those are key aspects we strive to provide. We are also happy to hear you had a great team lead. We acknowledge your points regarding our pay structure and culture. We value every team member and we are committed to ensuring that our culture and management style fully reflect this belief. We are continually reviewing our compensation to remain competitive and are focused on making sure our workplace is as dynamic and empowering as the technical challenges our teams face. We appreciate your honest assessment of where we can improve.
2.0
Feb 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- WLB, 40 hours per week - People, met many great talented people, but this company cannot keep talents due to low compensation and bad benefits.

Cons

- No remote policy no even single day hybrid. Tons of people left due to they cancelled some days WFH policy in 2023. - Many foreign engineers stay here either is because H1b or green card, - Technologies are really old and obsolete, company wants to build everything from scratch but willing to pay little. It is still using late 90s version control software, they dont use git. - Good Talents keep leaving, good engineers dont want to stay at this company. - Job security becomes the worst, At the beginning of every year, there would be a 10% layoff. Severance package is also the worst, 30 years employees only got 2 weeks compensation. - Benefits are the worst, HSA changed from 1000 to 500, holidays changed to 8 days, It was 9 days before, but if you look around, there is no a 8 days holiday company exists. PTO 14 days. - Salary is pretty low compared to the market, you can barely pay your mortgage or house rent. - Company seems to terminate the plan of development of Geosat network, and changed to 5G, but it seems does not have any specific plan yet. - Merged with a bankrupt company Dish, stock price fell down.

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