Founding ethos and current trajectory diverge - Anonymous employee Dolby Employee Review

2.0
Oct 14, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing engineers, compelling innovations, best-of-class facilities, and a rich intellectual history serve as a superb foundation for this niche entity. If you can find the right organization this can be a great experience.

Cons

Company has slowly devolved from a meritocracy where invention was the ideal to a good ol' boys oligarchy reigned through political alliance. Entire business units who have not produced any revenue in several years persist where charismatic leaders with a proven record of product delivery are now blowing in the wind. The corporate message of diversity, inclusion, respect, empowerment, and well-being is merely a checkbox as 90%+ of the leadership and white and male.

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Cons

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