Dailymotion Reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(132 total reviews)
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Maxime Saada

31% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Dailymotion has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 132 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dailymotion employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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132 reviews
1.0
10 Jun 2016
Recommend
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Pros

A good amount of freedom to self-manage, though this may be to executives having no interest or no understanding of what their employees actually do.

Cons

Essentially at this point this isn't a real company. 90% of the views on the site are either fraudulent, take place on shady 3rd party sites, or are against totally inappropriate UGC content that no advertiser would ever willingly buy inventory against. The relationship being forced with Havas, which is also essentially owned by Vivendi, is borderline illegal and at the least completely unethical. One wonders what Havas' clients will think when they find out their ads are running on the dirtiest inventory and they are paying premium rates in a scenario of not double or triple but quadruple dipping by Vivendi/Havas. Executives take no responsibility, pushing any failure on to subordinates who have no real decision making power. There is no merit in why people are promoted or allowed to run teams, other than it being mandatory that they're French and will protect their C level bosses. Speaking of which, the CRO and COO have no real experience or track record of success, and it's widely known they are only interested in keeping their jobs long enough to acquire green cards while having their homes, cars, and children's schools paid for by the company. In summation, the company is entirely a scam, producing revenue without having any real products or inventory of any value. There is no vision for the future beyond squeezing every last drop of swindled cash from whichever sucker somehow spends with them, only to line the pockets of the execs who live high on the hog with their heads in the clouds.

1.0
7 Jun 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

2.0
25 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great free food and beverages - Throws fun parties - Perception of a growing company based upon hiring - Culture is above average, mood and tempo in office laidback

Cons

- Fundamentally does not understand foreign markets outside of France - Lowest common denominator approach towards solving problems - Banking heavy that a full stack SSP solution will save the company - Ethical concerns: Masks their domain to buyers and sells off-site properties as dailymotion.com, mismanages understanding around targeting capabilities - Content relationships barely holding on due to shrinking traffic, revenue shortfalls, brand safety concerns, and regional brand perception - Lack of leadership and strategic planning - region by region - No communication plan or strategy – brand perception outside of EMEA weak or simply unknown

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