Okay company to work for if you’re high enough on the career ladder and okay with your position. Perks are good if you can take advantage by traveling or being close to the parks.
Toxic culture. Promo process is not fair, favoritism trumps merit. Too many politics. Leadership is nonexistent or a failure in some aspects.
Anyone know what’s the comp of an executive director of product at Disney streaming?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-disney-executive-who-made-119-505-a-day-11674045194?mod=hp_trending_now_article_pos2 The Disney Executive Who Made $119,505 a Day Key highlights: 1. Geoff Morrell received over $8 million in compensation for less than four months’ work in 2022 2. Started working at...Read more
Today during earnings, Disney announced layoffs (7,000 / 3%) but haven’t even notified people yet if they were impacted. Nor has the company given a timeline on when people will be notified. Managers and execs are in the dark too. Instead everyone is just left to wait and hope it’s not them. It’s a...Read more
Anyone know if Candle Media, media startup led by former Disney execs, is hiring?
Update: So layoff did happen but I wasn’t laidoff even after volubteering to my manager. turned out my manager was already on exit route (seems like as an exec he got advanced notice and time before layoff). I did secure a FANG PM job and starting soon. Now a lot of Disney employees are furloughed ...Read more
Is anyone familiar with Disney's Executive Search Team? I'm speaking with them regarding an exec search sourcing role and trying to get a better understanding of their internal recruiting exec search model. Thanks! #recruiting #disney #executivesearch
Why Netflix has many woke shows? Why Disney have many woke shows? Why corporate America leaning in the woke direction? I’m curious like the working mechanism. Liberal top executives? HR leans liberal? Owners? Shareholders? Like what are the mechanical mechanism and reasons this happens?
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-11/hollywood-diversity-executive-exits-warner-brothers-discovery-disney-netflix-academy After utter failure in box office and viewer ship Hollywood executives seem to be saying bye to DEI heads
Hope this doesn’t break the rules. If it does, I will remove the post. Relative who is an experienced executive/administrative assistant is seeking a new position, ideally in a media company, in the NYC Metro. Their YOE and desired TC: 15 and 50-100k. #nbcuniversal #disney #paramount #comcast @n...Read more
I was accepted into both USC and UCLA’s Part Time MBA programs and want to eventually move into an executive role at my current company, Disney, or somewhere like Netflix, Google, or Apple. Any insight into how the two programs compare in the LA area? Reputations of each? Most comparisons I’ve see...Read more
Hello! I’m a marketing strategy manager at Disney in DPEP. Would it be a fairly easy transition to Product Management? I’m interested in tech and have experience developing strategies based on data, working with cross-functional teams, building decks, presenting to executives, etc. I am fairly techn...Read more
I’ve been talking with google about an L6 role (edit: on the business side). I’m coming from Disney at the executive director level. The google role is lower in title, but that doesn’t concern me if the role and comp are good. And the role seems great but not the comp! i figure 232k/yr based on what...Read more
I have a job offer for an exec-level position from a company in San Francisco and I live in LA. The plan is to move back to SF in a year (I have kids) but until then the job will require me to commute weekly from LA for 2-3 days/week. The comp is good but they’re only offering me 5K for a whole year...Read more
Looking for insight into what it's like to work @ Disney in Data Analytics/Engineering around Seattle area. Where is/are the offices? (Seattle DT, Bellevue, etc) How's comp and WLB? Any re emote work? Better to join direct, through 3rd party recruiter or contract to hire (I presume direct as FTE is ...Read more
Hi! I'm looking for a referral to a recruiter at Apple or Microsoft (or another top co). to help me find the right executive leadership gig. Loops at Amazon/Google are putting me at an L7 or L8. My background is distributed systems, orchestration, and data platforms. I am an architect, manage manage...Read more
I’ve been at my current company (small, ~300ish headcount company in the Energy sector, mainly a Ruby/Rails stack) going on 10+ years. Since joining, I originally started as a SWE, promoted to Senior 1.5 years later, then eventually team lead. In 2019, I was asked to take on the Director of Engineer...Read more
I am currently working as an IT Support at Microsoft, Redmond (WA) and I am looking for a change. I have been working at Microsoft for 4 years and have been moved around different positions. I was promoted to a Senior IT Site Support Technician, then to Executive Support and then to a IT Support Te...Read more
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion/musk-twitter-tesla.html Autocratic chief executives are dazzling. Unconstrained by the bonds that hold back ordinary executives, they soar to higher highs and crash to lower lows. Today’s case study in dazzlement: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, ...Read more
I am looking for TPM (Technical Product Manager) roles in India. Previously Senior Software Engineer in Cybersecurity & Kubernetes Startups Work History: Startups + HPE, Aruba Networks, Cisco Years of Experience: 6 Years Received an executive education in product management from the Indian School ...Read more
I am looking for TPM (Technical Product Manager) roles in India. Previously Senior Software Engineer in Cybersecurity & Kubernetes Startups Work History: Startups + HPE, Aruba Networks, Cisco Years of Experience: 6 Years Received an executive education in product management from the Indian School ...Read more