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    Sony Pictures Entertainment Reviews

    Updated June 18, 2018
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    Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman and CEO Michael M. Lynton
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    1. "Great Culture and Place to Work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time

      Pros

      Sony isn't as corporate as some other studios may be, and they have a real underdog/innovative spirit. As an independent studio, they know they have to stay current to survive, which makes it feel entrepreneurial.

      Cons

      They're one of the smaller studios and don't regularly produce hit movies. This can cause financial concerns and there have been layoffs at various times in the last few years. There's a new CEO, too, so it's still uncertain about the future of SPE.

    2. "Great place to work"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Culver City, CA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Culver City, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      good pay, good benefits, good people

      Cons

      less opportunity to grow next level

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    3. "Digital Media Manger"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time

      Pros

      Great company, nice with employees.

      Cons

      Few opportunities to grow in the company.

      Advice to Management

      No advice to management from me

    4. "Business Analyst"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Environment , salary , people , benefits, leadership

      Cons

      leadership in some areas very biased.

    5. "High Context Latin Culture"

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      Former Employee - Digital Media Analyst in Miami, FL
      Former Employee - Digital Media Analyst in Miami, FL
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Amazing offices. Located on Brickell Key (island right off Brickell). Most people are incredibly welcoming

      Cons

      Lack of transparency. As per most Latam HQs, the culture is very high context. What people say is often entirely different from how they truly feel. If you're a really direct, straight-forward working style... this may not be the best fit for you

    6. "Great campus"

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      Current Employee - Senior Vice President in Los Angeles, CA
      Current Employee - Senior Vice President in Los Angeles, CA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great campus, gym on site, free to full time employees. Company cares about the environment; flex hours depending on your boss.

      Cons

      Need more women and diversity in Senior Executive management.

    7. "Great place to work"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time

      Pros

      The pay and benefits are competitive, and it is awesome to walk around the historic studio lot and see the different productions. People generally care about each other, and the connection with Sony in Tokyo is getting better.

      Cons

      Continual layoffs make it not the most stable employer, and it is stuck between independent studio and mega studio, so it's difficult to have great margins, no core values that distinguish it...so it's hard to attract the top crop. of workers.

      Advice to Management

      Come up with a comprehensive leadership outlook that can be passed on to all leaders in the company...Generation Z is coming and they are only interested in companies with amazing corporate cultures - so get to work or you will be left behind the other studios and companies that are way ahead on this.

    8. Helpful (2)

      "Legal Assistant"

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      Former Employee - Digital Content Strategist in Los Angeles, CA
      Former Employee - Digital Content Strategist in Los Angeles, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      There are some wonderful people there, the lot is located in Culver City and it's part of the entertainment industry.

      Cons

      The management is the WORST. There is a culture of berating and harassment. I also experienced racial discrimination from bosses. They are cheap and slow with needed resources. There is also a strange culture of blame and gotcha politics (often shifting blame to innocent parties by the people who created the problem in the first place), but management never seems to be actually interested in fixing the problem, which is childish and ineffective.

      Advice to Management

      Clean up your act!

    9. "Sr. Account Executive"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time

      Pros

      high profile entertainment job in cutting edge industry.

      Cons

      poor leadership and poor product support

      Advice to Management

      think more strategically

    10. Helpful (1)

      "Gone downhill, given up"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous in Culver City, CA
      Current Employee - Anonymous in Culver City, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Sony Pictures Entertainment full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Brand name in the industry.

      Cons

      To list only a few, management are out of touch with the audience, industry, technology, and trends. Will protect the dumbest current employees and refuse to hire anyone from outside the company. This company will get sued for discriminating against external candidates(its not if they do,its when)

      Advice to Management

      A complete overhaul of the management from the top down is NEEDED TODAY. I can't believe no one from Sony Japan has't walked in and done this yet. Just because a person got lucky and is a current employee, it does NOT mean you should transfer them around or hire them for positions when there are passionate, smart, and great external candidates.
      For obvious reasons I can't say who I am or my position title. But I am in disbelief by the flat out stupidity that goes on inside this company.
      I have seen countless candidates come in for jobs and be turned away for some internal candidate. I have both heard and talked directly to managers, directors, etc. who admit that they did it for one of the following reasons, "they're too inpatient or lazy to wait 2 weeks for the new candidate to start", "they think it will cut expenses to use an internal candidate and then complain when the idiot internal candidate underperforms, my personal favorite "I don't want this you're,smarter, candidate to take my job". Translation, I don't want people finding out I'm stupid.
      You got lucky with Baby Driver and Spiderman Homecoming but you need to expand into other IP's and really focus on quality and adjusting to the new streaming markets.
      Passing on passionate external candidates who have youth, experience, the skills and graduate level educations is a terrible idea.

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