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    Telegent Systems USA Reviews

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    1. "Telegent Systems is the best employer I've had in years."

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      Current Employee - Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Current Employee - Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Recommends

      Pros

      Growth company with opportunity to excel. Staff are recognized for achievements. Company is growing rapidly, and new opportunities arise frequently, offering staff the opportunity to gain good professional development and interesting work assignments.

      In the past year (August 2007 to August 2008), Telegent staffing has grown 50% and revenues are up by more than 100%, despite a "slow economy", due to thoughtful design of innovative products. This can be attributed to the positive environment the company has fostered, giving staff wide latitude in approaching their job objectives and goals.

      Cons

      Long hours are needed occasionally.

      Advice to Management

      Hire even faster.

    2. "rocketship up"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Telegent Systems USA full-time

      Pros

      was an incredible experience to create a new feature class and ecosystem

      Cons

      unable to diversify out of video

    3. "Staff Software QA Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Senior QA Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Senior QA Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Telegent Systems USA full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Startup Environment and a small office

      Cons

      Worst Experience. Made you feel bad coming every day. Always gave negative feedback. Didn't know how to retain talent.

      Advice to Management

      Do

    4. "Waste of time"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      Friendly people.
      Catered lunch and dinner.

      Cons

      IPO was cancelled, which was the whole point of joining the company. Also, company was strangled to death because of the lack of product diversity, which the company should had compensated for given the price wars with cheap Chinese alternatives. Not enough done to adapt to competition and changes

    5. "horrible experience"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      great technology that had life changing opportunity

      Cons

      management that was easily influenced by the wrong people

    6. "Telegent Systems was a mostly good place to work, but mgmt didn't understand the product market as well as necessary."

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA

      Pros

      It was good technical work experience.

      Cons

      Some major projects were cancelled, due to poor market reception.

    7. "Typical Valley startup with good technology, strong engineering, weak senior management."

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sunnyvale, CA

      Pros

      Lots of great hard working minds committed to doing what they do best. They have two strong members in the executive team (operations and engineering heads)
      overall a good company with bright future if senior management makes the right decisions. I would recommend to work for.

      Cons

      weak management. Poor HR. facilitating departments are not treated the same way as the engineers. Most managers and Directors have no or little past experience and training some have experience as managers but no training. So if you are joining don't expect too much and you will be ok.

      Advice to Management

      focus on your people they are your greatest asset. Train your managers.

    8. "nice working environment"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends

      Pros

      great people, great environment, fun place

      Cons

      future projects change all the time

    9. "not good company"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend

      Pros

      Free lunch and dinner are provided

      Cons

      There is no vision down the road

      Advice to Management

      vision! vision! vision!