RealNetworks reviews

2.9

33% would recommend to a friend

(304 total reviews)
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Rob Glaser

37% approve of CEO

18% positive business outlook

RealNetworks has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 304 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The RealNetworks employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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304 reviews
2.0
Jul 28, 2008

Find who you'll work for and which group

Anonymous employee
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Pros

benefits.. can't think of anything else.. good place to start your career.. then it drags. good name to have on resume too to an extent. mid-level and senior management are not the best in terms of communication. interaction between various groups can be a pain in the neck. do a good background check on your future manager, can really decide how miserable your stay at real will be. lacks business ideas or motivation to make user friendly products.. meets revenues solely on the basis of couple of departments and company acquisitions. can't think of more better reasons. but worth the try if you are in seattle.

Cons

senior management or the management in general is used to taking drastic steps to meet revenues. org changes are common at the top recently, for better or worse. not much interaction between various group.

2.0
Jul 18, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

There are some pockets of good people at Real who are here (or still here) due to their life circumstance (Green Card, new to area, waiting for stock options to vest/profit, etc...).

Cons

Senior management can't decide and stick to a focused strategy long enough for it to play out. Recognition and advancement are not easily tied to individual performance but rather on who you know, what team you are on, what other politics are going on at the time, and other nebulous factors that most people don't know about. I also agree with the other reviewer concerning Jackie Lang. It is also more disheartening once you realize she is one of the very, very few female execs at Real.

4.0
Jul 17, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Pleasant seaside location and delicious spaghetti right next door. There are a lot of really smart people, even if they don't stay too terribly long. There are some good interesting tech projects. Very diverse work means that if you want, you can look around within the company. Oh and duh, free Rhapsody.

Cons

Very disorganized, with G&A surprisingly low-tech for a "high-tech" company. The organization as a whole is very disjointed as well, very siloed structure really doesn't facilitate cross-group communication, which can lead to frustrating bureaucracy. The cafeteria could use some work, especially since there are so few restaurants nearby.

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