Ixia Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Ixia for more than 7 years

Pros – Great people, industry leading/strong track record, focused on culture and developing our people, a global footprint, opportunities are boundless. Join us if you like collaborating with passion, focus and speed. We're proud of our company, our team and our purpose in the hi-tech space. We have a lot of fun while solving very challenging, bleeding-edge technical problems.

Cons – The pace is fast, but it's worth it if you like making a difference.

Advice to Senior Management – Stay focused. Keep growing. Keep focusing on making Ixia a great place to work, learn and grow.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Working for a successful & rapidly growing company like Ixia is thrilling, especially when many of its products are cutting edge and first-to-market. Partnerships with the best companies in technology and industry standards organizations set Ixia apart from its competition. Opportunities to learn the latest technologies and stay ahead in one's career make Ixia a compelling place to work.

Cons – My negative experience with Ixia may have been a negative side effect of its rapid growth. In one case, I was treated harshly by a co-worker who worked many years for the Ixia. We worked together on the same account, yet, he treated me like his competition and tarnished my reputation with our customer by backbiting and using false accusations. Despite his relatively narrow technical expertise, and even worse communication skills, management looked the other way when I and his other peers voiced concerns. In another case, a project manager with very little people management experience (and an extreme lack of interpersonal skills) was promoted to be the director of the global professional services organization. In my opinion, his disagreeable personality sours the morale of the entire organization.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – - New and complex technologies
- Friendly environment
- Capable management
- Good base salary
- Great additional benefits

Cons – - Sometimes work can be a bit stressful
- Late hours some days due to the need for meetings with US and India people

Advice to Senior Management – Relax your expectations for one release train. If time has shown you cannot do as much as you would like in so little time without adding stress and overtime to the technical staff, then you should rethink your estimations.

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

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - getting into new technologies (optimize traffic, data security)
- great benefits
- good pay relative to the market
- open management

Cons – - woking hours tend to go late in the evening due to time difference although there are some efforts into limiting the meeting up to a certain hour of the day
- the company doubled the number of employees and the people still didn't integrate, don't feel always as a team
- fast changes are happening but they are not managed properly and raise people frustration
- middle management need to grow from technical to people managers

Advice to Senior Management – Middle managers need to grow and learn how to talk to people, evaluate them, praise them

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

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for less than a year

Pros – Growth, opportunity, employee support. Best ideas win.

Cons – Fast paced environment, can require log hours

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

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – If you're lucky, you get to work with the latesc stuff in networking. Also, in my opinion, the company is doing great economically and you get a great feeling of accomplishment.

Cons – From time to time, we need to collaborate with teams from US and this might mean staying late.

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

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time for less than a year

Pros – Dynamic environment, with lots of people to learn stuff from. That is if one is willing to learn and improve his skills.

The rating system upon which, the managers are mainly evaluated based on the feedback provided by the ones they manage

Cons – Teams have a strong autonomy, so it kind of depends who your direct supervisor is. Some people can have a really hard time and be constantly under pressure if their manager is eager to prove himself.

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

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

Pros – Free Coffee and nice decor.

Cons – Small office with cliques.
No team spirit .
Bad manners with each other occurs far too often.
People do not treat each other with respect.
Some staff have unwarranted egos and self belief.
Do not listen to other opinions or new ideas.

Advice to Senior Management – Fire people who need to be fired
Break up cosy cliques and change the culture.

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

Current Employee – been working at Ixia as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Lots of knowledgeable people from which you can learn.

Cons – A ping-pong table that kills productivity. :)

Current Employee – been working at Ixia full-time

Pros – Health insurance
Office location
Team buildings from time to time

Cons – Lack of information available on the project you work on and other projects related
No team work
Lot of bug fixing work - number of bugs raised and then resolved is the quality measurement tool
No work procedures
People are in general very poor profesionals
Lack of respect shown among people
Very large projects with a lot of dependencies among packages
Priorities are changed many times a day

Advice to Senior Management – Be transparent to the people in their team
Enhance communication skills - very poor
Encourage team work
Get involved in problems raised by people

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