Hopeless company, top heavy, wrong direction - Anonymous employee TiVo Employee Review

3.0
14 Jun 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company treats employees well, overall. Good benefits, reasonable pay, nice office environment, free fruits, social events once in a while.

Cons

* The company has had a few missteps after the merger of Rovi/TiVo. The stock price is down to the ground. Sadly, no executives are held accountable for it. * The company's management team is a big problem. They lead the company to the wrong direction. The company is very top heavy. Too many VPs, directors, etc. There are always more than enough people who are ready to review, but none of the reviewers can roll up sleeves, get hands dirty to deliver any analysis or results for review. Don't see any value add of so many reviewers. Too many reviewers, very few doers. * Because most of the high level people can't do anything tangible, whenever there are new projects coming up, they just hire contractors. This company has so many contractors that the contractor headcount is almost the same as the regular employee headcount. I've never seen this in any other companies. Top heavy and incompetent managers are the root cause of this. * Nobody connects dots. People just work in silos. It is difficult to get cross-functional works done.

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5.0
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Pros

This role is flexible time wise. It provides a lot of down time within one shift. The supervisors were understanding about errors, and supportive when training. Very small amount of training required.

Cons

Have to be able to watch and listen two two television shows simultaneously.

2.0
18 Dec 2025
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Pros

The office building was nice and there are some great people that worked there.

Cons

The leadership was a bunch of men just trying to protect their own egos and line their own pockets. I never worked anywhere that felt as dismissive of women as TiVo.

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