Sorenson Media reviews

The company took an abrupt nose dive, products didn’t meet expectations, and no investor would touch the company. Management handled lay offs in absolute worst possible way. Threatened employees for talking about what was coming and laid majority of people off with no warning and very little severance. While they claimed they would help employees find new jobs, when asked for references current employees said the company has declined them privilege to do so. The company is in complete disarray and has no capital to continue or strong product to turn things around.

Lots of turbulence. There was a huge hiring boom last year, which ballooned operating costs. The CEO was replaced recently with the expectation of stabilizing finances. But the company has failed to drive revenue, failed to court investors, and is now slashing their workforce across the board to stem the bleeding. There's an expectation that people will work at a *bare minimum* 45-50 hours a week, and challenging that is met with contempt. The corporate culture is dysfunctional in the extreme. Avoiding and assigning blame is more important than getting the work done. There are pervasive communication issues at every level of the organization. There's very little top-down direction, so way too much productivity is lost into redundant or inconsequential work. Deadlines are missed regularly. The business is struggling to measure success at the most basic level because so many shortcuts were taken to rush to market that essential monitoring and data infrastructure mechanisms simply don't exist. They're drowning in a sea of technical debt.