Rovi Reviews

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

Pros – The medical & dental benefits are nice. They do feed us weekly & every month they do give us a luncheon.

Cons – In all the years that I've been working it's one of the worst companies I've seen to waste their money on needless things. They spend money likes it's candy. They somehow find the money to put in new office furniture, new carpenting, new tv's for the conference rooms, buy more companies & etc but they are unable to find the money to hire the personnel that we need to do the overload of work that we have and/or to give us the proper pay raises that we so deserve (by industry standards, we are all getting paid far less) considering that we, the people below an executive position, are the ones that are doing all the data entry work. When you go to your supervisor or HR with any type of concern or complaint, you get ignored. They tell us that we have to work as one team & they want the work atmosphere to be like Hulu or Zappos but yet they have put so much fear into us about losing our jobs, that there's no way that everyone can be or will be happy. It's not about not accepting change. It's the way that the higher management & board members are going about doing things that are not in a positive way. Very few women get promoted here. It's all a "boy club".

Advice to Senior Management – Listening to the folks that are below an excutive position would actually help with Rovi wanting to make this company a nice & pleasant place to work at. Also, if HR could really be faster about responding to people who apply for postions. I know of people who've had family & friends that have applied for to work here & have never heard from anyone in HR or if co-workers who have a problem that needs to resolved then listen & resolve it. There's no HR person on site & this is the first company I've ever seen not have a HR person at each location (like there should be). It's hard to build a relationsship with an HR person when you have to communicate with them via a phone call or email.

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

Current Employee – been working at Rovi full-time

Pros – Pays the bills, even if it is only just

Cons – Pay is ridiculously low for the area I live in. Non-skilled workers in the same area get paid more. If you bring up the issue of pay they roll their eyes. Yeah we get annual bonuses but it reflects directly on company performance and yet Tom Carson gets millions in bonuses no matter the company’s performance. They claim that a portion of it is on personal performance but this year they gave everybody the same no matter how much or little you do. Career progression is non-existent. You will learn no new skills. I learnt everything I needed to and could learn from this job in two weeks. Management is just all sorts of wrong. Working hard and doing more work than others gets you nowhere. You may as well sit back and do the bare minimum for all the good your extra effort does. The company goes on about how it is focused on customers and yet it has sued everybody. They try and shove ‘innovation’ down our throats and to try and get us to come up with the next million dollar idea but if we do, we get a gift card and a pat on the back while they patent it and makes millions off it. We are not allowed to own ANY patents of our own while working here so they make sure that we can make no headway elsewhere in our lives while stuck at the Rovi prison. And I know you are reading this and thinking ‘Just leave if it is that bad’…I am trying. As I stated earlier, we have no opportunities to learn new skills and I don’t get paid enough to enter any external courses so I have no new skills and have been outdated. Put simply, Rovi is just wrong in every sense of the word and eventually when I hear back from the plethora of job applications I have sent out, I will be out of the door quicker than you can say the Rovi motto, ‘but how will that effect dividends?’.

Advice to Senior Management – Sort it out...just sort it out. We need an overhaul.

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

Former Employee – worked at Rovi full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Compensation was in-line with industry standards, and facilities were generally comfortable. Unfortunately, not much else to write.

Cons – Fundamentally flawed strategic decisions have been made in the past. Management wanted an army of "yes men", not thinkers/subject matter experts. Employees were expected to blindly follow directives without critical thinking (which was frowned upon). This created an untenable experience. Hopefully, things have changed...

Advice to Senior Management – Unwinding past mistakes will be a big challenge to the new CEO.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Rovi

Pros – There are some great people there. Some are smart and looking out for oneanother.

Cons – Unfortunately these people are undermined frequently and not empowered to do the work they are supposed to. There is a clique like atmosphere to the upper management and your ability to be productive depends mostly on their view of you rather than your ability.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a long hard look at who holds the power in your organization. Are you sure it's where you want it to be? There are some greatly talented team members who must be getting phone calls to go to other companies. If you don't empower them to do their work, they will leave.

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

Current Employee – been working at Rovi full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good stock and health care options

Cons – Arrogant management – it's either them or the rest. The upper management's attitude is definitely rubbing off to others, and people are unhappy and complaining all the time. They'll make you feel like nobody, and your contributions won't be recognized. My advice - if you are talented but bad at politics, go work at somewhere else.

Advice to Senior Management – Put your self together. I am truly embarrassed for you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Rovi full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There used to be a lot of them, but they have dwindled. The benefits package is still excellent, but that is about it.

Cons – - There is too much work for too few people to have any chance of producing good quality and feeling good about your work. I have had 12-18 direct reports for 3.5 years which is absurd. No matter how I have tried to get this to change, it hasn't.
 - Management that I see from the VP level on up is terrible. Most "leaders" operate with the approach that their people are there to serve them rather than them being there to serve their people. It is no wonder why morale is low and attrition is high.
 - This is supposedly a technology company, but the CEO has no tech background. At best, 1 of his direct reports has a tech background. And so on down the line. The current senior management team has no idea how to bring the supposed vision to life.
 - Tech background aside, the CEO (Tom) is horrible. I have never seen a leader at this level before with zero charisma, zero energy and that puts people to sleep with presentations so quickly. In the hallway, he doesn't even acknowledge your presence. The same largely goes for his direct reports that I encounter as well.
 - Advancement is based on whose butt you kiss rather than on merit.
 - Senior management has zero accountability, yet preaches about how important accountability is. It's a joke. I can't count how many times people senior to me have said they would do something and completely dropped the ball.
 - There is no coherent strategy. The company chases ambulances for a living. Just admit it.
 - There are more, but I'll stop now.

Advice to Senior Management – Either fire yourselves or be more honest about what the company actually is (hint, it is NOT a product company). There is so much saying one thing and doing another that you have no credibility left. Employees have told you countless times what needs to change, but very little of this actually happens. Start actually listening to people or quit wasting their time with making lists of things to change that go nowhere.

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

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

Pros – if we get our act together there are some cool things being built here! good benefits.

Cons – difficult to keep people on board. people are quitting every week. entire teams have walked out, talent remaining in those offices is highly questionable or kept aboard with retention packages. becoming a big deal at the staff level creating a Have vs Have Nots situation for retention packages. really bad morale for entertainment store employees. these are possibly parts of the 'transformative change' hr refers to.

Advice to Senior Management – instead of spending time convincing employees to come to THIS SITE and enter positive reviews, spend the time instead focused inward and making things better!! cultural survey firm admitted we were among the lowest they had EVER reviewed this has nothing to do with glassdoor postings!

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

Current Employee – been working at Rovi full-time

Pros – At Rovi, there are many talented and smart people. One often gets the opportunity to collaborate with these individuals and through the course of such collaboration, friendships are forged.

Cons – Management/HR seems to be posting many positive shill posts on here. It is insulting to current employees and to potential hires. You clearly do not value us if you think the best way to boost a review is to fake reviews. SHAME on you for such unethical behavior.

Advice to Senior Management – RESPECT US. Stop faking posts on here. Actually listen to us; figure out what we're saying and act on such suggestions rather than spend money needlessly on HR initiatives and the like. SHAME ON YOU FOR CONDONING UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR (FAKE POSTS)

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

Pros – This WAS a great place to work. The previous CEO, Fred Amoroso, was a leader. He had excellent vision, and everyone on here who says it's golden years were a couple years ago, were talking about the Fred era. He truly inspired, and cared about his staff. The pay and benefits are great here, if you haven't been laid off.

Cons – No leadership after directors and various other managers have left. Teams go months with no direct managers or directors. How can you effectively lead with no one to lead? Country wide lay-offs are not done yet. No direction in a place that does not know where it's going.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't try to push a culture that someone else built. Invent a new culture, and new beliefs that you can call your own. Then we will believe that you mean it. Actions speak louder than buzzwords.

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

Former Employee – worked at Rovi full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – For those who haven't been laid off, the benefits are very competitive

Cons – Everything else. On the Engineering side, the company is attempting to deal with a massive amount of technical debt, and in an effort to pay down that debt, they are massively restructuring their organization. There have been a large number of layoffs company wide with no real explanation as to their purpose, and that has crushed whatever morale still existed at the company. Many people are left wondering if they are next, and Management continues to keep their employees in the dark as to the future direction of the organization. Also, the company touts 'work-life balance' as a core value of the company, but that is a bold faced lie, and this is not an exaggeration.

Advice to Senior Management – Take some personnel management refresher courses. Employees are real people, not blocks that you can keep shuffling around without impacting your foundation. Treat your remaining employees as the assets that they are and stop pretending that you can keep replacing them without impacting the company's operations. Rather than developing the assets that you had to help the company move forward, you chose to discard so many of them and that has had a massive negative impact on your workforce's morale.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend