Values in the right place - Senior Software Director NBCUniversal Employee Review

4.0
Jul 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I have had the chance to work with some fantastic people here. People are energized, passionate, and fully committed to what they're doing. The company is doing its best to anticipate and even embrace disruptive change, although this mostly happens at a local level -- Agile product development, particular individuals spearheading new approaches. To their credit, this is a company that puts a high value on integrity, on Doing the Right Thing, and on creating a safe and diverse workplace.

Cons

On the other hand, as one might expect for a large corporation, owned by a larger corporation, there can often be a lot of red tape to get through, especially where legalities are involved. Having operated a startup-like project within the organization, we also found it sometimes difficult to get support from other verticals within the rest of the company. The structures for technical information sharing are underdeveloped. Also, while there has been a stated interest in innovation and disruption, the mechanisms chosen to solicit and implement new ideas have not been the most conducive to gathering and testing a diversity of ideas.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

NBCUniversal is full of smart, funny, talented people who genuinely care about the work. I learned a tremendous amount there, especially about programming, production, audience strategy, brand management, budgets, talent, internal politics, and how a major media company actually functions when the glossy press release meets the spreadsheet. The brands are still powerful. NBC, Peacock, Bravo, USA, SYFY, E!, and the broader portfolio have real history, real audiences, and real cultural weight. When the company is aligned, it can move beautifully. You get exposure to major shows, high-level conversations, complex productions, and the kind of institutional knowledge you cannot really get anywhere smaller. It is also a place where you can build real taste and real judgment. You see what works, what almost works, what dies in a conference room, and what somehow survives three leadership changes and a budget cut.

Cons

The biggest downside is instability. NBCUniversal has been through major structural change, including the cable network spinoff into Versant, divestitures, reorganizations, and significant layoffs. That kind of uncertainty changes the job. You are not just doing the work. You are trying to understand which version of the company you work for this quarter. Decision-making can also be slow and heavily layered. There are a lot of smart people, but sometimes too many of them need to bless the same sentence, deck, cut, budget, or idea. The result is that good work can get sanded down, delayed, or rerouted through a maze wearing a lanyard. The company also asks people to do more with less, then less with less, then somehow make it feel premium. That is exhausting. Especially for employees who care deeply and are trying to protect the creative, the business, and their own sanity without being handed a map.

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