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DreamWorks Animation

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DreamWorks Animation Software Developer reviews

4.3

68% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)

Margie Cohn

100% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated DreamWorks Animation with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. DreamWorks Animation is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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21 reviews
5.0
May 3, 2014

Great place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Lots of interesting technical problems to solve. Relaxed approach, very little in the way of pressure or deadlines. You get to see your software used by amazing artists to make movies ... with your name in the credits :) Incredible sports & fitness facilities at Redwood City campus. Great art classes ... painting, improv, stop motion, sculpture ... you name it. CEO Katzenberg is incredibly open and emails everyone summaries of what he's been up to every day or two.

Cons

Surprising amount of bureaucracy/corporate culture for such a creative place. Having software teams answerable to movie executives with no understanding of software development can get silly at times and leads to engineering managers spending too much time keeping the people above them happy. Overly complex software environment means it takes quite a while to learn the ropes as a new person.

1.0
Apr 19, 2014

Worst Management Ever.

Recommend
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Pros

Picturesque campus, free lunch food

Cons

Terrible management. The engineers in the software group were asked to apply for new internal software projects, but they failed to deliver engaging projects. Instead, many of the employable engineers applied for jobs at other companies (like Google) and left. Too many senior engineers, tech leads, and principle engineers left the company in the last few years. Good management would fight to keep the best engineers and have the guts to layoff the "lifers"; the opposite is happening at Dreamworks.

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