Under-Resourced in a Culture driven by Criticism and Distrust. - Anonymous employee Dolby Employee Review

2.0
Apr 16, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Industry niche and company name recognition. Director level and below filled with good people who have great ideas, passion, commitment, execution and incredible self-sacrifice.

Cons

Self-Interest of paternalistic executives/senior leadership, who have a dismissive, condescending attitude towards the employees. High turnover/churn - people are treated as very disposable. Serious lack of work-life balance due to heavy workloads and resource constraints. Lots of internal pressure for the "next great product", plus infrastructure growing pains, plus re-orgs, plus churn, plus paternalistic leadership, make for a highly political, critical, and distrusting culture.

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Cons

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Cons

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