RadiSys Reviews

I worked at RadiSys

Pros – I was an intern. They actually let me work with end-product code and deal with customers.

Cons – Takes a while to get used to ATCA if new.

Advice to Senior Management – Good management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at RadiSys full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – RadiSys has a lot of very talented architects and knowledge about the telecommunications industry. Their pay has been fair at hire, although not yearly raises have been sub-par.

Cons – Management has lost it's way. Recent acquisitions caused a management exodus, which isn't reversing course. The board of directors wants to move the company into higher-margin business. But, their singular focus on gross margin doesn't pay the bills.

Advice to Senior Management – Bringing in more value is admirable, but you weren't in a position to turn away lower margin business until you had more demand for the more profitable endeavors.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at RadiSys full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Employees are smart, motivated, enabled, and expected to achieve, do what's best.

Cons – Company has failed to grow revenue for a long time. What growth has occurred has been thru acquisition.

Until revenues grow, the company will continue to be squeezed to implement cost cutting. Very painful.

Most functions are now outsource to Asia. Very very limited USA job growth.

Acquisition of CCPU has been more of a take-over by CCPU.

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Advice to Senior Management – Get into business that will grow organically. Set and communicate reasonable growth guidelines.

Find a way to get back to a culture that is fun, rewarding, exciting, and team oriented.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at RadiSys

Pros – Great team--lots of collaboration.
Healthy work life balance
Results based
Invested in training
Nice benefits
Openness from management

Cons – Constant downsizing and cost reduction. Radisys has fully shifted focus of design and operation to Asia.
Much less opportunities now days, unless you speak Mandarin.
Present CEO very aloof.
Change in business strategy has led to comoditized products that are based strictly on costs.

Advice to Senior Management – It may be the nature of the business, but shifting practically everything to Asia has it's downsides, as the company no longer feels American.
Not sure what value the company has anymore, so sell the company to an Asian based computer company and let them properly gut the rest of US offices.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at RadiSys

Pros – Good benefits and salary
Praise and recognition for job well done

Cons – Few US opportunities
Very little growth opportunity

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at RadiSys

Pros – RadiSys attempted to promote positive and forward looking innovations for business processes and tools to integrate excellent cost improvement and product improvement capability into the business. If you are at least a decent performer, you are generally regognized well.

Cons – RadiSys held on to old processes far too long and rewarded resources for doing so as well. People who performed well but were not innovative or improvement-focused, were seen as high level performers. Turnover was high in the ranks of the resources who could move the operations forward, and was low with the resources who were holding on to old methods. If you desired to be a star performer, you had few role models, and the personal challenge to excel was often greeted with surprise from the rank and file.

Advice to Senior Management – Innovate, create, and reward resources in all functions at all levels for these thought processes.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at RadiSys full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1. Good learning opportunities for people having less than 5-6 years of experience.
2. Good Pay
3. working on latest technologies like LTE.

Cons – 1. Management is really poor, company have managers who doesn't have basic management
     skills .
2. Hire and fire policy. Have fired too many senior people in less than an year.
3. Employees are full of Stress, Fear, and Panic because of bad management decisions.
2. worst quality coding done by engineers , no one
      can understand code except the one who has written . New joiners suffers because of crap written by so called star engineers of the company .

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Get good managers from good product companies they know how to manage great product .
     current lot of managers(except few) lacks these skills.
2. Follow strict software engineering principles , you are making LTE product not a college level
     C programs.
3. Be very clear about what radisys is going to do day say in coming 6 months or 1 year , don't keep
    on changing decisions in every week.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at RadiSys full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible, hard working, latest technology, supportive culture was there. Good pay, average benefits, higher management is very approachable. Spreading across the globe now.

Cons – too much favoritism, not everyone is heard by local management. its their way or the highway culture which does not reflect compared to the head office. there is a down outlook for the immediate future but if corrections are made the company can succeed again.

Advice to Senior Management – Be careful about what is happening, take corrective action and you will have a great combined company again.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at RadiSys

Pros – work life balance is good

Cons – less opportunitites, lesser pay and no direction

I have been working at RadiSys full-time for more than a year

Pros – I have not seen a company in my career who takes care of its employees so well, every single policy is around employees, you can go meet HR any time, give feedback about anything and they listen to you and act.
great place to learn, anyone can talk to customers (not only managers), every opportunity is given to learn and grow.
core high tech work involving every phase of product development.
great architects to learn from. most managers are very good, have a culture 1 on 1 meetings.
great place to work overall.

Cons – you cannot take life easy, people are accountable for their work and deliverables - i think that is good for people who wants to achieve something in their life. we go to work place to learn (not to waste our time and career). if you just want a time pass job then Radisys is not the place.

Advice to Senior Management – automate the feedback process, provide more time for engineers to write patents, white papers etc as part of project plan.

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