Beware Mostly Smoke and Mirrors - Anonymous employee Crunchyroll Employee Review

2.0
Sep 26, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun office environment; Cool and interesting people; Enthusiastic teams; hip branding that makes the office and the website look cool; recently acquired by Warner Media so may gain more support; amazing fans

Cons

Terrible communication in teams and between teams; Lots of long emails with ideas but no resolution; No ownership and lots of turfing and shirking of projects and responsibilities; Poor executive leadership; Lots of cliques; Limited To no vision or strategy especially now that the company has been acquired; everyone at this company is extremely overworked and has too much on their plate; no formal process in place; everything is a frenzied free for all; reporting structures make no sense and key projects are understaffed, underfunded or supported by Volunteers who come and go as they please or as projects interest them; recruiters are charming and quick talking know how to show you what they want you to see but once you start working here you’ll see the truth which is a bunch of smoke and mirrors; employees want rewards and kudos when they haven’t done much or really have just done what they’re supposed to do based on their role; rampant bullying; persistent question of who is really in charge and who’s direction should we be following (Warner? AT&T? Otter?)

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