Is Dolby a good company to work for?

Dolby has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 891 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months. 71% of employees would recommend working at Dolby to a friend and 52% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Dolby have been left by employees working as Intern , Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer .

Does Dolby pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Dolby employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Dolby. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Dolby?

71% of Dolby employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Dolby 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Dolby?

Software Engineer (38) , Director (26) , Staff Engineer (23) , Intern (20) , Senior Manager (19) , Senior Software Engineer (19) , Marketing (17) , Engineer (11) , Manager (9) , Program Manager (9) , Executive Assistant (8) , Staff Software Engineer (8) , Internship (7) , Research Intern (7) , Project Engineer (6)

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

"People are great and hardworking" ((in 104 reviews)); "9/80 good work life balance" ((in 65 reviews)); "Good benefits designed towards long" ((in 63 reviews)); "So fun! Great teams and colleagues!" ((in 22 reviews)); "Market Leader supplying to a lot of leading companies in the industry, innovative company with good pay." ((in 20 reviews))

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

"1) Salary is not competitive" ((in 23 reviews)); "Continuous reorganization’s & layoffs." ((in 18 reviews)); "Upper management is becoming obsessed with change for change's sake." ((in 13 reviews)); "a bit limited learning and growth opportunities" ((in 8 reviews)); "Fewer opportunities outside of San Francisco" ((in 6 reviews))

What are employees saying about Dolby layoffs in 2026?

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

What are the top reviewed Dolby locations?

San Francisco , Sunnyvale , Burbank , New York , South San Francisco , Los Angeles , Hollywood , San Jose , Atlanta , Chicago , Santa Fe , Washington , Pleasanton , Goleta , Denver , Redmond , Seattle , State College , China , Germany

Dolby reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(707 total reviews)

Kevin J. Yeaman

74% 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 707 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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707 reviews

3.0

Dec 5, 2013

Wonderful engineers/co-workers, but upper management is throwing darts w/ minimal strategy.

Quality assurance engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* The engineers that work there are wonderful, smart, talented, passionate, and driven. * Get every other Friday off. * Better paying than most companies (but at what cost?) * Very encouraging of a healthy working environment (debatably).

Cons

* The engineers are under-appreciated/not well known or well utilized by upper management. * There are 2-5 managers for every engineer, rather than the other way around. * Upper management continues to pinch pennies by stretching engineering resources as thinly as possible.

3.0

Jun 15, 2013

If you aren't a sound engineer, run away...

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

If you are a sound engineer, this is a cool company to work for. Lots of really smart engineers, nice offices, mostly reasonable hours. Engineers are treated with respect and their contributions are greatly valued.

Cons

If you work outside of engineering, your work and contributions are considered inconsequential. Although Dolby is still relatively small, there is an ivory tower attitude on the part of management and there is little or no tolerance for hearing anything other than what they want to hear.

3.0

Jun 2, 2013

Could be much worse

Staff engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

9/80 schedule if you are in one of the old offices (San Francisco)

Cons

* Slow to change * Moving up requires either luck through a void or oppurtunity, or by networking internally - not really merit based. * Poor recognition for what you achieve. Unless you're on a sexy project you might as well be invisible. * Too many managers

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