Crunchyroll reviews

The people who were too incompetent to make a functioning anime streaming app (Funimation) are in charge now. The cool and laidback work culture that made Crunchyroll a desirable place to work is long gone. The merger destroyed what could've been a respectable place to build a career. Every position is a dead end, or has negative mobility though a lack of cost-of-living raises that most respectable employers give to most dead end employees. You'll experience the same toxic, soul sucking, on-call work culture that investment bankers do minus the lucrative pay, benefits, or prestige. I can't tell you how many times I got a work call while I was dead asleep, or how many nights of my life were constantly interrupted by Slack DMs. This is all in service of long term projects that amount to nothing by the way. Working under the Crunchyroll/Funimation merger is analogous to working at GameStop. Your passion and ambition is something to be exploited, not nurtured. You can expect to work long hours, have no career path, and low pay. But hey, at least they let you rummage through the dollar toy bin before it all goes to the incinerator.

It was great until Sony took over and then decided to lay off everyone, including the CEO, replaced by someone who doesn't know anything about anime. What once was a smaller, amazing culture, turned into a travesty. VPs and Directors who somehow BS their way to the top and do nothing in return.