Does Crunchyroll pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Crunchyroll employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Crunchyroll. This rating has improved by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Crunchyroll?

57% of Crunchyroll employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Crunchyroll 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Crunchyroll?

Senior Software Engineer (14) , Software Engineer (14) , Director (5) , Marketing (5) , Project Manager (5) , Manager (4) , Product Manager (4) , Analyst (3) , Anonymous (3) , Vice President (3) , Customer Service Representative (2) , Employee (2) , Engineer (2) , Engineering (2) , Intern (2)

What are the pros of working at Crunchyroll according to real employee reviews?

"Working at CR you get to meet some really great people with the same interests." ((in 28 reviews)); "• Benefits and office perks are great." ((in 19 reviews)); "There used to be great coworkers passionate about the product and fun to work with" ((in 17 reviews)); "The office is great, and really dog friendly (huge plusses in my book)." ((in 13 reviews)); "one of the best teams in terms of providing support and being compassionate w situations" ((in 10 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Crunchyroll according to real employee reviews?

"Senior leadership is fostering a culture a of distrust and fear." ((in 18 reviews)); "Teams consistently face layoffs while still suffering from overwork after the previous round of layoffs, and no one is able to get assistance because everyone is equally overworked." ((in 17 reviews)); "Upper management and executives are ignorant about who is actually competent versus who is barely qualified to make coffee." ((in 12 reviews)); "Was told creepy manager was going to be fired." ((in 7 reviews)); "The pay is average so not too exciting" ((in 6 reviews))

What are employees saying about Crunchyroll layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Crunchyroll layoffs and their outlook for job security at Crunchyroll in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Crunchyroll locations?

San Francisco , Los Angeles , Dallas , Culver City , Coppell , Brooklyn , Omaha , Texas City , Daly City , Pleasant Hill , Dallas-Fort Worth

Crunchyroll reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(239 total reviews)

Rahul Purini

53% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.5

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Culture & values

3.0

Career opportunities

2.8

Senior management

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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Reviews by job title

239 reviews

3.0

Aug 17, 2025

Long-term degradation

Senior qa automation engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Cozy offices - Friendly colleagues - Great opportunities for new hires in Mexico and India to do nothing while the company is in chaos

Cons

- Immature top management. Management came from Funimation in 2021 does not have the competence to manage a large company. Their current successes are based on the foundation laid until 2021. - Incompetent top management intentionally hires weak subordinates, which undermines their weakness and intention to avoid competition. - Weak but loyal subordinates have more weight in decision-making than experienced professionals. - Constant restructurings and layoffs slow down the development of projects. The company's development has stalled. - Management's statements constantly run counter to actions. Example: We layoff to grow; We are reducing QA to improve quality.

1.0

Mar 15, 2024

Change your leadership.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- The team (with the exception of the top management/EMEA directors) is a pleasure to work with - Working in the anime/manga industry and contributing to Japanese culture

Cons

- Decisions are made on the basis of personal affinity / without taking any strategy into account - EMEA top management who are clearly incompetent and don't know what they're doing

4.0

Jun 14, 2021

Good company to work but you will be underpaid

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Before pandemic, extremely good office and workspace conditions. Good interview process. Technical interview was on the high level. You receive presents at most important public holiday which increases fidelity to the company. Good technical level of software engineers. You are working in product company and you are focusing on building good and valuable product. High technical level of software products. Software engineers cares on code quality.

Cons

The biggest problem are salaries. You are underpaid almost for all technical levels (junior, middle, senior). Salary review is one time per year and it could not satisfy you and it is extremely hard to increase your salary during the year. The biggest increase you can get is to be promoted to new technical level, which is sometimes hard (depends on department you are working on). Some not optimal technical decisions are pushed from top level technical management without taking into consideration developers and platform users concerns. Hard to switch to another department to work on some other part of the platform in other language. Sometime is hard to get promotion on other engineering role like team lead or engineering manager

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