Dolby reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(707 total reviews)
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Kevin J. Yeaman

74% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

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
Mar 3, 2014

Ok

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

9/80, work life balance. ATMOS has real potential

Cons

General lack of vision. No real-software-engineering processes in place. Offshoring of lots engineering positions and utterly clueless regarding anything audio that is not a licensable codec technology.

3.0
Feb 5, 2014

Engineer role

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good technology, benefits are great.0, 9/80 work week is excellent

Cons

Administrative CEO and senior management has no vision - poor manager of people. Most of the engineering departments are under-resourced, stressed and hardly get to take advantage of the every other Friday off (or even weekends at times).

2.0
Feb 2, 2014

Every team has a rebuilding year/stage...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Motivated middle-management, 9/80 work schedule, SMART people, many loyal employees that have been at Dolby for 5+ years

Cons

The Marketing re-org that happened in early Spring 2013 is still a mess. We're under-resourced, stressed and hardly get to take advantage of the every other Friday off (or even weekends at times). Maybe we're just in a "rebuilding year" as is common when a historically engineering company shifts real focus into marketing, but it remains to be seen. High-level engineering seems to be happy though I wouldn't recommend Dolby for marketing positions at this time. There's still a lot transition that's going on and maybe the exec level management, VPs and Director levels need to have a clearer understanding of the pressure on those at lower levels to execute on marketing objectives with LITTLE internal resources and direction. Dolby is still in the midst of proving value in E-Media (mobile/OTT/streaming industries) and it's apparent that not everyone agrees on the direction and industry approach. (Another commonly stated problem on glassdoor which I agree - EVERYTHING is consensus decision making. It's not uncommon for large public companies to have a lot of cooks in the kitchen to make sure we're supporting business objectives that have been communicated to shareholders but too many global cross-functional representatives have to have final feedback in the smallest of tactical executions, which is not feasible for the mobile industry pace.)

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