Great place to learn and grow - interesting work and excellent colleagues
Pros
I've been at Dolby for almost seven years. While here, I've had tremendous growth opportunities: I've learned a ton from a variety of challenging projects across all areas of my field, and I've been able to advance my career. I really appreciate: - Working on a daily basis with highly intelligent, analytical, interesting people both within and outside my function. Respecting and learning from the people around me is super important to me. The interesting thing about Dolby is that many of these people tend to be humble as well. - The availability of challenging, worthwhile "problems" to solve - you can really make an impact here; the level of complexity can be frustrating at times, but for the most part guarantees you won't be bored or complacent - The leadership team's commitment to high quality and high integrity - we make high quality products, we take pride in solving difficult problems, and while I may not agree with every leadership decision I have never questioned whether leaders would "do the right thing" - In general, I think many people enjoy good work-life balance here and the off-Fridays are a great benefit
Cons
Many of our challenges are not unique to Dolby and include: Being a truly "global" company in which our non-US HQ regions are set up for success A leadership style and culture that is more "traditional" and "hierarchical" than many tech companies, although I see some evidence this is changing The difficulty of making real progress when multiple departments, systems, processes, and stakeholders are involved - change can be slow here at times with a lot of up-front buy-in required
