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    KVH Industries Reviews

    Updated June 5, 2017
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    KVH Industries Chairman, President, and CEO Martin A. Kits van Heyningen
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    1. "Great Place to work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at KVH Industries full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Salary, friendly atmosphere, family oriented.

      Cons

      Hard to advance within the company

      Advice to Management

      Promote within.

    2. "Innovation that enables a mobile world!"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at KVH Industries full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      KVH is an innovative technology company providing solutions in global satellite communications, navigation, and stabilization systems, for commercial and military application, as well as subscription services for charting, weather, news, and entertainment, for seafarers moving goods across the Earth's oceans. How cool is that?

      Space, technology, innovation, customer and employee experience initiatives, all in a compact, nimble global company.

      If you love playing on the water, KVH is surrounded by the ocean, with beautiful beaches, historic Newport, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd largest cities in New England a short drive away.

      Despite being global in size, KVH has a very "family" feel to it. Life-work balance, and community involvement make KVH a great place to work.

      Cons

      Battling for talent with other tech companies can be a challenge. Rhode Island has not traditionally been recognized as a "technology" state, like Massachusetts or California, but Rhode Island was named the 16th most innovative state in the nation in 2016. Considering the size of the state, R.I. is punching well above its weight class in innovation.

      Advice to Management

      Like every other technology company, continue to balance innovation with process improvement.

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    3. "Great place to work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at KVH Industries full-time

      Pros

      I am in my first year at the company, and have loved it so far. The products we offer are compelling and innovative, the people working here are great to work with, and the leadership of each department all seem to be on the same page.

      Cons

      The only difficulty I have encountered is trying to learn the business in a short period of time. We offer a very technically advanced product and it sometimes is challenging to follow along during conversations with experienced, long term employees.

      Advice to Management

      Continue to recruit talent from all across the country and being an awesome place to work! Products continue to improve and so does our "customer first" mentality.

    4. Helpful (4)

      "Not the best"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Providence, RI
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Providence, RI
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at KVH Industries (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great culture, everybody is very nice.

      Cons

      Far too many meetings and managers become micromanagers.

      Advice to Management

      You really need to re-evaluate Scrum - it's not for everyone.

    5. "Excellent company with family values"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at KVH Industries (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Excellent teamwork and communications for success

      Cons

      None that are worth mentioning, it is a great company

      Advice to Management

      Thanks for all your support

    6. "One Amazing First Year"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Provides a sense of contributing to a worldwide solution, enabling communications to never thought of places and guidance to those in all types of vessels and arena's.

      Creative working environment and exposed to intelligent associates that strive and push the boundaries.

      Cons

      For the time none come to mind; just a great place to work at.

      Advice to Management

      .Continue to strive to hire more associates that will help continue to drive the business to even bigger heights.

    7. "Network Administrator"

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      Current Employee - IT Systems/Network Administrator in Encinitas, CA
      Current Employee - IT Systems/Network Administrator in Encinitas, CA

      I have been working at KVH Industries (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      Great people to work with.

      Cons

      Need more of a growth opportunity.

    8. "Good place needs to revisit promoting from within"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at KVH Industries full-time

      Pros

      great monthly luncheons, awesome positive CEO

      Cons

      Company only promotes from within if you are in sales or an engineer, everyone else stays "idle" in the same position. Don't have any special training's established for team members nor do they have a "step up the ladder" outlook. Once your in a position your basically stuck unless you know someone. ??? :(

      Advice to Management

      Foster an environment of growth for your existing employees encourage growth from within the company.

    9. "Good place for tech, not for anyone else"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at KVH Industries full-time

      Pros

      Always willing to push innovation boundaries. Investment in R&D is very high compared to similar companies. Friday social hour and monthly luncheons are nice perks to bring the company together.

      Cons

      Company is unfocused, constantly in search of the next breakthrough technology which results in numerous projects being altered or abandoned. Pie in the sky focus also results in critical day to day operations receiving no attention. Politics run very deep for such a small organization.

    10. Helpful (2)

      "Assembler"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Middletown, RI
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at KVH Industries full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      great perks and company luncheons pay sucks

      Cons

      very clique and expect a lot from u

      Advice to Management

      pay better

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