Sony Pictures Entertainment Reviews

Pros

Benefits, pay, nice looking studio, good restaurants nearby

Cons

Ongoing layoffs and outsourcing of employees is bad for morale.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to make good moves and television shows and quit laying off your employees. Management needs to look at the long range business outlook of the company and not the current fiscal period.

Pros

I was hired to work on a movie. The great part was that I learned an entirely new skill in the short 3 months that we shot the film. Management was wonderful and helpful. Paid for my gas. Provided meals.

Cons

The pay for being a "contract" employee was a bit low and no overtime. No benefits for contract employees.

Pros

Fun work, casual environment, pay contractors fairly, diverse projects

Cons

Lack of full-time possibility, lack of project ownership

Pros

Good Benefits. Good westside location.

Cons

Lack of communication from senior management.

Pros

The company looks after its employees with decent benefits and compensation. The lines of business are very diverse so there are potentially many opportunities to expand one's horizon. The number of available holidays throughout the year helps out with the work-life balance issues for those who need a hand in that area.

Cons

The entertainment industry is a very fluid business where the "feast or famine" business cycles sometime can create havoc in planning for projects and going for funding. The nature of the show-biz workplace tends to place more emphasis on personality than process for getting things done. Then, again, welcome to the working world.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be great to create more collaboration projects with other Sony sister companies. Those collaboration projects tend to lead to innovations or changes that can create new learning and growing opportunities for everyone involved within the organization.

Pros

SPE is a great place to work - depending on the division and mgmt team - like any place else. There are good, qualified people, there are not so good and qualified - like any place else.

Cons

There are questionable promotions. Limited ability to grow, and further career.

Pros

Best reason to work at SPE are benefits and perks

Cons

Too political environment, some policies are archaic

Pros

Lot is kept clean.
Extra time off at holidays (depending upon that year's calendar).
Some terrific people.
Yes, there are screenings as long as you can figure out where to find the schedule on the Intranet and can made sense of the hurdles required to score tickets.

Cons

*Even at Director level, no authority to hire/fire, recommend raises or authorize expenditure for a post-it note.
*"Green" buildings are poorly designed and somewhat ridiculous: horrible faucets, no privacy, unusable space in cubicles, etc.
*Impossible to find basic info on Intranet.
*IT outsourcing isn't working; contractors and new staff don't know the systems or businesses they're supporting.
*No word to Sony employees about the customer hacking scandal until weeks after it had been reported in the press.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your employees and act with integrity instead of always putting saving face as your first priority. Then you'll have a company that IS as good as it looks.

Pros

Good Perks and nice name on resume

Cons

Inefficient Communication, Unwillingness to change

Advice to Senior Management

Value people who have talent

Pros

pay and local benefits to employees

Cons

laying off people affects the moral of employees when constantly done over 4 years

Advice to Senior Management

better communication between employee and hr