The acquisition has killed Dailymotion - Senior Software Engineer Dailymotion Employee Review

1.0
Jun 7, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The Palo Alto office has and still is a very cool place to work. Everything else used to be good, now it just feels like "When is this going to end!"

Cons

After the acquisition, Dailymotion became the worst place to work. Vivendi top exec's idea of increasing revenue is "increase ad pressure" and they have absolutely no idea how to run an online media business. Decisions take months to come back. Lousy pay, lousy bonus and the entire company feels like a big scam. Engineers, especially the ones that have been there for a long time, are way too arrogant, and it's tough to work with them on a daily basis. Their Agile workflow is average; they have two weeks sprints but every few sprints they have this week to do different projects except in most cases we end up doing sprint work on a very tight schedule.

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5.0
May 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Work hard play hard environment. Stay focused on work and you will do great!

Cons

Sometimes seems a lot is going on in the office, tough to get work done if people are socializing in common areas. No cons I experienced were specific to company leadership. Loved every second here!

2.0
Jun 25, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It was kind of nice in the beginning

Cons

Dying company no room for growth

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