Good technical people, but horrible management
Pros
The new CEO seems to know what she's doing and has the proper experience, previously working at HP. Company has a good reputation in the market (market leader), and a decent customer base. People are generally friendly. If you're an outgoing person, you will make a lot of friends here. Salary is slightly above the market in RO. Auxiliary benefits are rather mediocre. There are some really gifted technical people here in RO office, from which you can learn a lot. Opportunities for growth in the first 1-2 years. You will get your hands on some cutting edge tools / equipment that may be hard to find in other environments. It's generally considered as a good place to start your working career in RO. Having Ixia on your resume still carries some weight here.
Cons
The company is striving to recover from a serious downfall, which translates into a dishonest CEO resigning, and multiple people losing their jobs due to the greed and lack of long term vision of the management. Company culture is severely lackluster. Nobody actually believes in the preached values, and this is coming from the top level. I don't think that if you randomly pick ten people they will name correctly at least three core values. Due to the way that we traditionally know how to do our business, the company is Product Management driven, rather than Developer driven. If you are a developer and have good ideas, there is a good chance that you will be completely ignored. This leads to the "Yes-Man" syndrome, as it can often be observed in Ixia. Archaically internal processes, that probably made sense back then when this company was a start-up, but don't make any sense right now. You will likely stagnate after 1-2 years, stuck in tedious bug fixing, or generally repetitive tasks. There is little, to no innovation in the company, which generally translates to acquiring smaller companies, and integrating their products into our portfolio. Work life balance is inclined towards work. Management will set unrealistic goals, without any vision of planning, and people will be expected to work out of their minds to meet the targets. Rewards are rarely of the same amount as the work done, and of course it's your fault if you don't meet the targets. Some managers are the worst kind of people you will ever meet. They will verbally humiliate you, and make you feel unimportant, as take joy from it. They will even go far as to make you lie to other people in technical matters, so that you can shift the blame from them to other teams.
