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      Dolby reviews

      3.8

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (705 total reviews)
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      Kevin J. Yeaman

      73% approve of CEO

      52% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Senior management

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      Dolby has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 705 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dolby employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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      Reviews by job title

      705 reviews
      3.0
      Apr 25, 2017

      Large company with massive organizational and technical debt.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Relaxed work culture. Many different projects are always going on at once, so during your time as an engineer here you'll have the opportunity to work on a lot of different kinds of projects. Competitive pay for the area. Great facilities.

      Cons

      Middle and upper management is risk-adverse and lack a clear direction. This leads to many different projects being created to pursue many different platforms that often end up reinventing and repackaging the wheel. Projects are often born as cobbled together frankensteins of other projects, leading to a lot of technical debt. Management oftentimes ignores this, instead pushing for feature creep.

      1.0
      Jun 15, 2016

      Worst place in the valley

      Member of technical staff
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      None, none, none none, none

      Cons

      If you really want to do work, in a company with a respectful atmosphere avoid this place like the plague. The incentives 9/80 schedule etc; are great but attracts the worst kind of politically motivated management who want titles but not the work. This is especially true about the video team in Sunnyvale.

      5.0
      Dec 24, 2015

      Middle Management

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Dolby is a good place to work, but so good for advancement. - Most employees have the option to work a 9/80 schedule, giving you every other friday off. They also have flex hours and allowing working from home - depending on your job assignment, of course.

      Cons

      There is definitely a segregation between the management levels. There's workers and some mid level management, but way too many VPs, they have VPs reporting to VPs and the salaries are significantly different between the levels. Management likes to hire talented, knowledgeable people, but then don't listen to them.

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