Hulu Employee Reviews about "growing pains"

Pros

The people, their dedication, their positive and don't-take-yourself-too-seriously attitudes are what make Hulu a great place to work. Everyone seems as passionate as I am for the streaming video space. We love content and we love crafting a great experience to watch through. When we're making hard decisions, trying to ship against a tight deadline, it's refreshing to be around folks that can de-stress, put into... perspective how our decisions will impact millions of viewers, and stay positive. In other companies, times like this turn into b**** sessions. Managers care about their team members and regularly discuss growth opportunities and career progression. We meet monthly as an organization and routinely touch on how the company is progressing on employee satisfaction initiatives - the transparency and focus is refreshing. This is not new behavior, but part of a pattern of high visibility and transparency between the various layers of management. The tech is cutting edge and we're always pushing to build an experience that differentiates us from the competition, yet still delights. We get to ship on so many different platforms, that it keeps us on our toes - the job continually refreshing.

Cons

We've been growing very rapidly the last couple of years, so there are some growing pains in how we effectively communicate across much larger groups as our processes, originally intended for a smaller company, show stress fractures. The positive side is this is acknowledged and folks are rallying to shore up processes to resolve some of the friction points. The impact is sometimes we're not all running in sequence,... which makes shipping a very complicated experience and set of technologies challenging.

Pros

Company-wide activities and sponsored events, startup-like environment and energy in certain areas of the office, plenty of project opportunities to collaborate outside of your group.

Cons

Growing pains, unclear direction at times given Hulu's ownership structure.

Pros

Great open One Team culture across the company.

Cons

Still working through some start up -> small company -> large company growing pains, but generally heading in a direction I like.

Advice to Management

Keep the openness and cross-org communication going strong. And also please get us more parking!

Pros

Great CEO. Fun working environment and culture. Recent Emmy wins and the current state of streaming video makes this a pivotal time to be at Hulu. The company is poised to really take off. Happy I made the choice to join.

Cons

Some department territoriality. The company has dramatically grown in the last two years so there have been a few growing pains, but not too many.

Pros

- Creative Minds - One Team Mentality - Culture is a top priority and a main focus from the start of recruiting process all the way up to leadership development work for our executives. - Benefits and perks

Cons

- Growing pains - Disconnect between business and tech teams

Advice to Management

As we've scaled so quickly don't lose sight of optimizing efficiency

Pros

-Work/Life balance -Company Transparency -Ability to work WITH your leads and managers not just for them

Cons

-Just a few growing pains but its also exciting to help have such an impact

Advice to Management

Continue to grow and push innovation, without losing our culture.

Pros

Great company focusing on revolutionizing entertainment

Cons

Going through growing pains as the company has scaled quickly

Pros

- smart, passionate, mission-oriented team members, who really do want to change TV - Interesting work, never a dull moment - really exciting to be a part of such growth - incredible culture/ perks/ benefits

Cons

- has not nailed down work/life balance yet... comes along with some growing pains - sometimes it feels we're too restrained by old media traditions/practices - competitive industry isn't for everyone, turn around has been incredible to be a part of but will be tough to keep going

Advice to Management

- stay focused on providing vision and living up to our values; the attention has been neccesary and helpful