Ooyala Employee Reviews about "career growth"

Pros

* google culture from the founders down through the rank. everyone gives 110% and it shows. * massive company success in the market.

Cons

* boys club. after a decade of silicon valley, now i know what hostility to women looks like, from execs and founders to vps and leads to individual contributors. * ooyala loves to fire people. one a month. * too many managers. it's like office space - 2 or 3 managers is the norm. * there is absolutely no support for career growth or for working reasonable hours.

Pros

- Overall great people, smart, friendly, genuine. - Approachable CEO and Executive Management - Nice "tech" perks (commuter pass, catering, gym, etc) - Interesting problems to tackle in an evolving industry - Cool internal events and videos, fun atmosphere - Great Health/Vision/Dental Benefits - Unlimited PTO (for most, though certain departments can't take advantage due to their role)

Cons

- Lack of career growth/progression - Talented contributors are routinely isolated and often silenced - Advancement happens through politics - Internal Comms is non-existent, lots of redundant efforts due to previously poor HR leadership - Green managers, hiring new layers of management instead of promoting from within runs rampant - Bad sick/disability/maternity policies. Not competitive with other Valley offerings.

Pros

Great benefits. Provides a lot of room for career growth. Has a very structured Human Resource team and operates like a big company. Free food and unlimited PTO.

Cons

The company is experiencing a high turn over. Has a hard time retaining talent. Smart but inexperience managers who does not know how to lead a team and tends to make things more stressful and complicated than it should be. Although the company is overly generous with gifts and compensations, they have a hard time tackling the root of the issues which is why employees are leaving.

Pros

- Everyone's relatively friendly and easy to work with - Great compensation, benefits/perks, parties, after-hours events - Flexible work hours - Ability to work with a variety of technologies

Cons

- While the industry and market space that Ooyala operates presents many challenges to the overarching business, the actual technical challenges seem to be concentrated to only a few spots. What used to be 'working with a bunch of smart engineers' seems more like 'working with a few lead engineers and a bunch of reliable code monkeys with an endless supply of duct-tape' now. - Cross-team gridlocks in engineering are very real. - Career growth/progression can be questionable; Not many advancement opportunities. - Amount of technical debt/legacy code to maintain can be painful (depends on the team). - Engineering onboarding ranges from very bad to passable (varying on team). It can be frustrating.

Pros

-entrusted with an immense amount of responsibility with no micro managing -huge opportunities for growth (and fast career progression) -phenomenal company culture (amazing team of people across the entire company)

Cons

-a significant amount of communication happens via email and can sometimes be lost in translation, not a huge issue

Pros

Gained a lot of experience and knowledge. Was able to pivot my career.

Cons

Limited career growth in the company.