TiVo reviews

3.8

80% would recommend to a friend

(535 total reviews)
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Dave Shull

66% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

TiVo has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 535 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TiVo 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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535 reviews
2.0
Feb 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Small enough that you can recognize most people and not get lost in the crowd. Hasn't succumbed to the open office layout fad so you get your own personal space in which to work in peace. Working in a technology space that few have succeeded in. Fairly low-pressure work environment by Silicon Valley standards.

Cons

Strong internal resistance to changing the legacy tech stack. The flip side of a low-pressure work environment is that getting deliverables from other people is often a struggle. The backend software release and deployment process is very error prone and a fear-based change control system has morphed around it. Only 8 paid holidays a year. Employee perks like 401(k) matching, etc. are minimally competitive. Upper management considers R&D merely an expense to be minimized rather than the core of the business.

2.0
Aug 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People at the middle level are pleasant but not particularly productive. Benefits and pay are good. Culture is good if you are looking for a 10 to 4 job. They give RSUs because the options would be worthless.

Cons

The CEO is a bully who comes up with some of the worst ideas imaginable and if you disagree he excludes you from the meetings and then fires you. He prefers younger weaker execs he can push around. The CEO pays himself more than $10 million a year and the stock has been in the same range for most of the time he has been there. Compensation is very good at or above the director level and it is used as a bribe to force your compliance. Most of the people around you understand that and do not fight publicly for what is right. You are forced to learn a lot of skills that you don't want to know, like how to keep quiet, how to say yes to bad ideas, how to ignore data and numbers. The rate of innovation is not fast enough to compete with the major players.

2.0
Jul 1, 2013

Disappointing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Could be a good place to add to your resume, but then move on to get anything worthwhile!

Cons

If you stay long term, you get no benefit to your career. Very little innovation, and won lawsuits are the goal. When law suits are won, too much money is hemorrhaged on useless things. There is also BAD leadership at the upper management level. No transparency from top. All about wasting money on frivolous company events. Not good enough benefits. BEWARE... the list goes on...

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