Crunchyroll reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(239 total reviews)
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Rahul Purini

53% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Crunchyroll has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 239 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Crunchyroll employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Arts, Entertainment & Recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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239 reviews
1.0
Mar 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

In short, there are still a few smart, humble, passionate people at Crunchyroll/Ellation despite the turmoil at the company. Free lunch and dinner four days a week, a very nice office and opportunities to have a big impact on the anime industry.

Cons

"Crunchyroll" is not a separate company. It's a product that the company Ellation maintains. The business teams for Crunchyroll are somewhat separated (though they're still in the same office) but engineering and many other departments are all part of Ellation proper. Read the Glassdoor reviews for Ellation. They don't bode very well. Petty politics and sabotage have resulted in layoffs for some of the most senior and well-respected engineers, as part of the company "growing" by buying up its outsourcing partner (whose CEO was conveniently ALSO the "interim CTO" of Ellation at the time). Now the rest of the senior engineers and lots of other people are leaving. There's a huge amount of distrust between ground-level employees and management.

1.0
Feb 18, 2021

This Job Traumatized Me

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Crunchyroll is a wonderful place to grow and learn if you fit in. Open office. LGBTQ friendly.

Cons

Social and professional boundaries are blurred at CR. My manager would threaten me in 1-1 meetings, and stopped including me in team building outings. He refused to let me speak to his boss, who worked from home, and made me feel like I couldn't go to HR. I worked under him for 6 months with no job description before quiting because a colleague made inappropriate, anti-semitic comments about me. Both are still employed at CR.

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Crunchyroll Response
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On behalf of Crunchyroll, I extend myself as someone to discuss your concerns further. (Tyler@crunchyroll.com). I am concerned about the environment and conditions you described. We strive to offer an inclusive and productive environment in all of our global offices.
1.0
Mar 19, 2019

Circling the drain

Anonymous employee
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Pros

• Good benefits • People are really nice, overall • Catered lunch and dinner

Cons

• Company took an immediate nosedive after the WarnerMedia acquisition, budgets got cut, hiring was frozen, product development went into the weeds, and management seems hopelessly outmatched by the new corporate masters. • Institutional influence has coalesced around one particular team, the social team, at the expense of the company as a whole. Unfortunately this team is the least experienced, least capable group in the company. • Upper management is largely absent in the day-to-day, from the CEO to the various product GMs, to several important team leads (including the social team lead, who works remotely). • In light of the ownership change, senior people have started to leave the company. It’s clear that anyone who can is looking for an exit - you can hear senior executives having phone interviews for new jobs. • Morale is abysmal. It’s obvious to anyone with eyeballs and a brain that Warner has no interest in Ellation, Crunchyroll, or VRV, except for the assets they can strip out.

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