Warner Music Group (WMG) brings together artists, songwriters, entrepreneurs, and technology that are moving entertainment culture across the globe. Operating in more than 70 countries through a network of affiliates and licensees, WMG’s Recorded Music division includes renowned labels such as 10K Projects, 300 Entertainment, Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, Elektra, Erato, First Night, Fueled By Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin’, Warner Records, Warner Classics.
5 Reviews
Pay is okay. It used to be decent but they cut the bands quite a bit. The devs they're hiring are also pretty good.
Management is constantly changing direction, likely because "the business" wants something different from tech every other week, or they're not moving fast enough so they want you to scrap whatever you're working on and start working on something new. I was sold that wmg wanted to be more than a music company and more of a tech company. Warner Music will never be a tech company. They have accumulated decades of garbage code written by contractors. New contractors are hired to pour more garbage on top of the last garbage. They now have brought engineering in house to fix the decades of underinvestment. Now the business is upset that they're paying engineers and we can't just magically make all of the problems disappear. They have still keep legacy "engineers" around, who open PRs with no descriptions, who don't write tests, who push directly to production to "test their code works". VPs of engineering are opening PRs on Saturdays because they're too impatient for devs to start working on Monday. Meetings are booked at 7:00 PM on Fridays and your manager is pinging you on slack if you decline/don't show up. We're all under constant pressure to ship garbage so that engineering leadership can show something to the non-tech part of the business which is honestly barely better than the garbage the contractors have been pushing for 10 years. The business will never change. The engineering will never change. They will cut off corners until there is nothing left. WMG will never be a good place to be a software engineer.