Jan 7, 2009
RealNetworks Senior Systems Engineer reviews
3.1
52% would recommend to a friend
Rob Glaser
100% approve of CEO
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3 reviews
1.0
Sep 11, 2008
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Pros
The corporate culture actually isn't horrible. Every employee gets a $100/mo spending limit and they don't nickle-and-dime as badly as other companies sometimes do. It would be pretty laid back and a good place to work if your immediate management was any good. A lot of the individual people that work there are pretty nice people.
Cons
The current management shakeup has left a pile of jerks running a lot of the departments. Blamecasting and threats to fire the first employee that messes up are managements idea of how to run the company. Do not take a job as a system or networking engineer at this firm. The jerks that are currently running this company are the kind of people who like to try to solve complex problems by kicking their dogs -- they take out their problems on the lowest employees. It used to be just kind of incompetent, but now its just mean.
2.0
Sep 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros
RealNetworks is a very very challenging environment to work at within the Engineering area's, if you like a challenge then this is a good place to spend a LITTLE time.
Cons
The most steeply political environment I've ever worked at, no inter-department communication, tons of finger-pointing. RealNetworks tries to maintain the dot-com feeling that we all loved during the nineties, however, upper management has a corporate outlook that is incompatible with a dot com culture. Re-orgs happen constantly, and the turn-over rate is surprisingly high. There is a ton of legacy systems and no real documentation to support it, and the personnel that originally deployed the solutions are long gone, leaving current employees holding the bag.
