Circling the drain - Anonymous employee Crunchyroll Employee Review

• Company took an immediate nosedive after the WarnerMedia acquisition, budgets got cut, hiring was frozen, product development went into the weeds, and management seems hopelessly outmatched by the new corporate masters. • Institutional influence has coalesced around one particular team, the social team, at the expense of the company as a whole. Unfortunately this team is the least experienced, least capable group in the company. • Upper management is largely absent in the day-to-day, from the CEO to the various product GMs, to several important team leads (including the social team lead, who works remotely). • In light of the ownership change, senior people have started to leave the company. It’s clear that anyone who can is looking for an exit - you can hear senior executives having phone interviews for new jobs. • Morale is abysmal. It’s obvious to anyone with eyeballs and a brain that Warner has no interest in Ellation, Crunchyroll, or VRV, except for the assets they can strip out.