Airvana Reviews

Pros

Good place to work for. Nice work culture. Nice work. Management shows confidence in you.
One is given lot of opportunities to work. I still miss that place for all these reasons.

Cons

Compensation at lower level is not good

Advice to Senior Management

Salary revision

Pros

There are many competitive and knowledgeable technical software engineers, very good background of system engineering people, good communication between people from different geographical work sites, good product designing strategy, positive environment

Cons

Drastic shift in terms of product scope with no hint why the change is changed in a short duration, inconsistent work allocation among peers

Advice to Senior Management

Product road map strategy can be made crystal clear to all levels of people in the company, It can improve the outlook of the products' future enhancements

Pros

Work Culture, Good Networking Company

Cons

Salary is Low as compared to similar companies.

Pros

Talented group of indviduals
Highly successful in 3G EVDO Wireless technology
It's great place to take on challenges and develop yourself

Cons

Work culture fosters negativity. Management is highly incompetent in decision making. Current mgmt focus is only on personal gains. Very low regard for employee moral and growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Airvana is making heap of money with their core business. Re-invest portion of it in next generation of products by innovating or aquisations to sustain your current growth.
Remember, smart employees can help make good companies great. Retain your talent!

Pros

it is a good company if you want to work in networks/ CD-MA work. Work culture is good. good to work.

Cons

salary is not as good as in the market . Not all the employees are treated as equally. rest all is ok.

Advice to Senior Management

It's is good company so please carry the same reputation.
Good thing is that recruitment is really from good colleges so keep that track for quality in company

Pros

A hugely successful product, and new innovations around the corner. One of the few companies around that is working on a 4G product that has a good future

Cons

like all startups there is a bit of uncertainty which could be bothersome specially in these uncertain times. There is a bit of funding uncertainty on certain programs

Advice to Senior Management

the leadership at airvana is doing a good job in general. However they need to invest more on research and pave way for a good future

Pros

1. If you are in 3G Femto team then you are in right place.
2. Team-member are nice.
3. Initiation is well appreciated (depends on under whom you are)
4. All consulting manager are very well qualified (both in US and India)
5. Employer can have good visibility in top management.
6. Good place for very highly motivated person.

Cons

1. Not very sound pay.
3. Lab is hazardous. Employer have to spend plenty of there time struggling Lab equipment. It is worst in Dev.
4. Lots of time wastage during work with equipment.
5. Sr. Management is bit subtle (and bit killing their team)
6. No proper training.
7. Employer has to work so many features/modules and so can not have any expertise.
8. Time intensive work environment.
9. Not very good relation in between QA and Dev.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

A chance to work developing s/w for carrier-class systems for CDMA operators worldwide

Cons

Lack of appreciation of efforts
Top management seems to be content with what they have and pretty much out of ideas as to where the company should go
Outsourcing is the current mantra

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Being a small company one gets to learn about more than one technologies and applications.
Good place to show your hard working abilities.

Cons

Not enough appreciation for the work employees put in.
Uneven distribution of recognition.
Employees don't get enough insight into upper management's future plans.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to be more transparent to its own employees.
Recognizing the hard work put in by right people.

Pros

Cutting edge technology with the femtocell products. As an engineer If you a interested in overseeing offshore design in the far east this is the place for you.

Cons

The decision to merge / be acquired by a with the hedge fund (S.A.C. Private Capital Group, LLC, GSO Capital Partners LP, Sankaty Advisors LLC and ZelnickMedia) changed the dynamic of what was a great company to work for. The founders and early investors cashed out. The company was split into two groups, EVDO and Femto. With the changes the bloodletting began. Femto is being run like a startup with management raising new capital and engineering being outsource to the India and the Far east. The people who helped build the company from the beginning are being let go, there is no loyalty by management, morale is dismal.

Advice to Senior Management

The employees that will remain after the dust settles from the merger need to have some confidence that they have a future at Airvana. The company management needs to define the direction it is taking to the remaining employees. A roadmap to sucess has been missing since the merger was completed. This needs to be defined ASAP.