Culture & Core Values Working at ViaSat, a Digital & Satellite Communications Company

Culture & Core Values Working at ViaSat, a Digital & Satellite Communications Company

Culture

Our culture empowers us to do things that other companies would find very difficult, if not impossible. It’s uniquely ViaSat and intentionally not like any other company. It also defines what we aren’t.

Culture is what we do without even thinking much about it. It’s what we all do collectively that matters. Use this page to see what we’re about and what we’re not about. And, just by the nature of the telecoms industry, it always needs to evolve, so think about how you might help us shape it for the future.

 

Is	Is Not
What we do	What we say
Creative	Conformity for its own sake
Value what's right	What's directed
Encourages meritocracy	Defined just by an org chart
Tolerant (of new ideas, flaws)	Intolerant, or worse - indifferent
Technology centric	Focused on support departments
Engineering centric	Science
Market driven - what customers want	Technology driven
Hard to sustain	Easy to undermine or destroy
Fact based	Emotional or dogmatic
Based on our determinations	Someone else's direction
Innovative in our own right	Just like anyone else
Cheaper, faster, better	Just better
Oriented around opportunity "flow"	Contract or single event driven
Team oriented	One business unit vs. another
Aggregate profits driven	Each unit independently
External competition	Internal competition
Internal cooperation	Internal competition
Sustainable, renewable growth	Quarterly or annual driven
Creating new business areas	Growing empires
Contributing to our company	Span of control
Fairness in whole company context	Advocacy of narrower interests
Shared ViaSat culture	"The emperor is far, far away..."
Business results	Technology for its own sake
Able to adapt	Resistant to change
Go to where the puck (market) will be (ala Wayne Gretzky)	Go to where it is now (or was)

 

Core Values