Culture
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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, just by the nature of the telecoms industry, we always need to evolve, so think about how you might help us re-shape for the future. |
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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 |
| Contributions to the 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) |