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Ixia reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(272 total reviews)
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Ron Nersesian

78% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Ixia has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 272 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ixia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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272 reviews
1.0
Aug 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good pay. some flexibility in working from home. people with good technical knowledge abound

Cons

main focus of each group, as directed by upper management, is to blame each other. everyne spends a lot of time on this. lot of effort is put into how bugs can be moved to other groups just so that at the end of the week, your team's numbers look good. management follows an approach of lying about everything to people, and they actually think people believe them. Dishonesty seems to be the main tool used to manage people. management seems to want you to quit so that they can hire more people in cheaper countries. Probably this is why they treat employees very very badly, and have no qualms about messing with your personal time. In fact, you dont have "personal time". It all belongs to Ixia.

2.0
Aug 18, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) Salary and benefits are on-par or maybe a bit more than industry standard. 2) There are quite a few really smart people.

Cons

1) Absolutely no long term vision 2) Complete lack of respect to employee's preferences. You have to work on whichever module you are asked to, without any consideration provided to your interests. 3) Constant pressure and culture of patching up solutions in a hacky way. People are discouraged to think holistically and are pushed constantly to deliver private fixes within a few hours. Groups just tend to blame each other and push issues around because of this. 4) Resources are treated like manual laborers. Upper management cares only about people count and assumes that 'n' number of people will bring down the total work duration by a factor of 'n'. 5) Management is actually happy to lose developers in US so that they can backfill with more resources in India or Romania.

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