Crunchyroll reviews

Crunchyroll has had a really hard time with growth in the last year or so. The company has tried to put many (many, many) plans in place in a variety of areas of the company with fairly poor adoption. There is a relatively new product management group, which is a mix of seasoned veterans and people who have been doing this role for less than a year due to migrating from other areas of the company. This has lead to a very sloppy attempt at agile development and many communication woes between stakeholders of various projects. There's also not enough project managers to focus on many pieces of work so they can be spread pretty thin, typically leaving some projects in the dark. The company recently hired a new CEO and CTO, effectively replacing much of the leadership that was already in the company and stepped on a the toes of many people who had been here for a long time. With the new CEO coming on board, the culture of the company is effectively shifting to be a mini-Google, but not necessarily in a good way. It's like trying to make a mid-size startup work like an arm of a giant company. The company is in dire need of more seniority and leadership in most departments, but entirely unaware of how to go about acquiring it. Given that it's grown so much in the last year or so, no lessons were learned along the way for scaling in a reasonable manner. Many new hires were promised stock options at hire but not granted any initial accrual for over a year! On that same note, it took over 8 months to complete a "leveling" structure which effectively pushed everyone into bands that allow the new CEO and leadership to hire in brand new VP level leadership.