Pros
Absolutely none whatsoever. You can say that it's a job but what that amounts to is that the people who are left here are either too comfortable or aren't good enough to be elsewhere. Work life balance is excellent because people here put in their 4-5 hours a day and barely get much done in those few hours.
Cons
- RealNetworks on the resume is a liability. If you're still at Real in late 2016, good luck finding a job somewhere else. - Inflated titles. VPs from RealNetworks go to other places and become regular managers. - Constant downsizing. At 2601 Elliott, Real cut their way to a fraction of their current office space and sub-let their building. We then moved to 1501 1st Ave S, took over 3 floors and now we are back to looking at a small portion of one floor. Going around in circles and repeating the same old procedures of cost cutting should give an idea of how insane this is. - No more good people left. Between layoffs and people leaving, we've pretty much lost all the good talent from the place. We have customer service doing product testing. - No transparency. Ever. - No real product. Still relying on scraps from Google and other small fish to make money from bundling a product the rest of the world stopped using a decade ago. Yes, RealPlayer for PC. Any other product is pretty much a failure at this point. We are still trying to make optimized codecs. Seriously? Yes, we are. - We could've been Netflix or the maker of iPod or a leader in casual games or a dozen other things but we weren't and will never be. Why? The CEO has the vision of a gnat and the execution...well, there's really no execution. The CEO is awful at his job. - Do I still have room here because this list is infinitely long. Real is a terrible place to work.
