Ixia Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Ixia

Pros – If you want to do some challenging work then this is the right place...
flexibility at work schedule....
if you are correct the you have the freedom to speak out....
if you want then you have opportunity to grow...

Cons – hmmmm...
management issues... Process issues...
HR issues....

Advice to Senior Management – please try to fix the issue process related issues and closely work with lower level people...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than a year

Pros – Chance to grow, lots of opportunities to learn about cutting edge technologies related to networking.

Cons – Facilities like lunch etc could be planned better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than a year

Pros – - New and complex technologies
- Friendly environment
- Capable management
- Good base salary
- Great additional benefits

Cons – - Sometimes work can be a bit stressful
- Late hours some days due to the need for meetings with US and India people

Advice to Senior Management – Relax your expectations for one release train. If time has shown you cannot do as much as you would like in so little time without adding stress and overtime to the technical staff, then you should rethink your estimations.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - getting into new technologies (optimize traffic, data security)
- great benefits
- good pay relative to the market
- open management

Cons – - woking hours tend to go late in the evening due to time difference although there are some efforts into limiting the meeting up to a certain hour of the day
- the company doubled the number of employees and the people still didn't integrate, don't feel always as a team
- fast changes are happening but they are not managed properly and raise people frustration
- middle management need to grow from technical to people managers

Advice to Senior Management – Middle managers need to grow and learn how to talk to people, evaluate them, praise them

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – If you're lucky, you get to work with the latesc stuff in networking. Also, in my opinion, the company is doing great economically and you get a great feeling of accomplishment.

Cons – From time to time, we need to collaborate with teams from US and this might mean staying late.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for less than a year

Pros – Dynamic environment, with lots of people to learn stuff from. That is if one is willing to learn and improve his skills.

The rating system upon which, the managers are mainly evaluated based on the feedback provided by the ones they manage

Cons – Teams have a strong autonomy, so it kind of depends who your direct supervisor is. Some people can have a really hard time and be constantly under pressure if their manager is eager to prove himself.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - highly skilled co-workers
- flexible schedule
- interesting projects in the area of networking

Cons – - relatively large technical debt

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - A good learning environment
- Most of the managers are OK
- People will generally help you

Cons – - To me it happened to have a stupid manager, fortunately she's not longer with the company
- Bug solving is the norm at Ixia, I personally think debugging skills are much more appreciated than the ability to right good code

Advice to Senior Management – - Be more serious when doing the employee evaluation, I noticed that some treat this as a burden and don't give it much attention, but for the employee it matters quite a lot.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Healthy management structure
- Challenging projects
- Good development environment

Cons – - Accent is on shipping on time with the desired features instead of quality

Advice to Senior Management – More consolidation after the 2012 acquisitions would be needed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ixia as an intern for less than a year

Pros – There are good collaboration and team work in the company.
The company offers many advantages to employees like: health insurance, gym discount, etc.

Cons – There is not a good learning environment. I was not satisfied with the behaviour of the management at that time.

Advice to Senior Management – My advice would be to give more freedom of speech to the employees and respect their decisions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend