RGB Networks Reviews

2.8

39% would recommend to a friend

(33 total reviews)

Jef Graham

74% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

RGB Networks has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 33 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The RGB Networks employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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33 reviews
1.0
30 Mar 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1) Extremely high salary compared to other startups (is this really a pro?). I habve to admit my salary was the highest it had ever been with RGB. Had to take a significant paycut to jump ship to another startup. 2) Free weekly lunch during the first few years. Monthly lunches currently. 3) Located in Silicon Valley

Cons

1) Employees are extremely overpaid compared to skill (management and engineers). I am currently in another startup with 30% PhD's and my current company's payroll is nowhere near as high as RGB is paying. (Don't ask me how I know). 2) Executive team is the worst I have ever worked for. Management is extremely short sighted. New projects are always behind competitors. Suggestions are overlooked. After the first VP of Engineering left, everything went south. 3) Inter-department relationship is the worst in my whole career. Each department has a "That's not my problem, so I won't help you" mentality. Too much politics. Marketing vs HW Eng vs SW Eng vs Mfg. That doesn't work for a startup! 4) Company spends like there's no tomorrow. Everyone in management is a prima-donna (Gotta have a mabook, iphone, own private office). No cost savings at all!!! 5) Company is going downhill. I was one of the first 30 employees. After more than 6 years, I had to jump ship because of all the politics involved. Even the three founders quit. 6) Ego. Half of the company is either VP, director, or manager. Too many chiefs, not a lot of engineers. 7) Extremely high turnover of employees. It seems no one can last.

1.0
7 Dec 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The first, and most definitely the last, all expenses paid trip to Cabo San Lucas for the whole company in April 2011. Free monthly company lunches.

Cons

It's a revolving door of incompetence. Be careful not to let it hit you on your way out. Better odds of success with the California Lottery. The acidic work environment poisons the minds of all those who work there and brings out the worst in everyone. Although the employees are very talented, the gross mismatch of their skills to the projects often results in delays that last from months to indefinite and beyond. This breeds hostility towards each other as everyone deflect blame and fends for their own survival, all the while leaving everyone questioning each other of their own incompetence. These forlorn souls roam the hallways aimlessly without competent guidance from the management that will lead them anywhere but into the abyss of failed companies.

1.0
7 Apr 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Well the pay is quite good like everyone else has said. The individual contributors in the engineering team are actually some great folks, they are very capable and good team players. I definitely made some good professional contacts there. I also learnt some new technologies. Please do NOT get carried away by the Pros, the Cons far outweigh the Pros.

Cons

Where do I start? There is no direction or roadmap. The marketing team is incapable of providing any insights on what product development should be doing, engineering pretty much decides what they need to do. They brought in some senior management people to design and deliver the next generation configuration and management software that combines their 2 main product lines into one software. First of all this software was not about any core video features or improving the performance of the product, it was just to aggregate the management interface of the product lines into one software. They hired a bunch of people for this project, while they were good engineers, the senior management was THE WORST I have witnessed in my 15 years of experience in the industry. I really don't have anything to say nice about the senior management, which was utterly incompetent, had NO clue about the technology, and had faintest idea about running a team, which made really senior architects with 25+ years experience to leave the company. People started leaving the team, the project status was always green in weekly reports showing no risks or issues but yet the project was postponed 4 times by more than 6 months and absolutely zero stuff was getting delivered, and yet no action was being taken to fix this problem and the senior management of the project was allowed to continue. I guess incompetence feeds incompetence. The company has not too many patents, they don't have too many customers, they don't have a vision or a roadmap, so I have to say neither IPO or getting acquired is a possibility. Close shop and find other jobs or just look for more funding and continue the insanity. I read the bad reviews here and still wanted to give the company the benefit of doubt since the people I spoke to during the interview seemed so nice, but never will I make the same mistake again. Just see that one review where the person has scored RGB 4.0 out of 5.0 and praised the company and see the tons of comments that review has received. There is a reason for it. The valley has a lot of good startups, save yourself from a bad career decision and look elsewhere. Thank you and I really hope this helped.

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