Hi Blind, I have an offer from Disney/Hulu for their Ad platform services for P4/lead/Staff enginner This is the breakdown: Base: $185,000 with 20% Bonus Target (Max $225,000 if all goes well) Signon : Equity -> 400k with 3 year semi annually vesting Cash -> 100k (75k at joining , 25k 1 year anniversary) lump-sum Disney LTI: 45% Annual refresher of Base with 3 year vesting semiannually The job is 100% remote and the offer is for Bay Area Is this a good offer ? I need help in understanding the following: 1. Worth dropping Amazon stocks ? 2. How is the WLB ? 3. How are Disney/Hulu engineers perceived in the tech Industry? 5. PIP culture ? Or reorgs ? Current TC ~300k 5 Yoe #engineering #swe
This is very good offer for Disney. TC is usually 🥜 but it looks like they really want you. Makes sense because everyone jumped ship and they don’t have no many staff / sr engineers with FAANG experiences at the moment. 1. No but if you hate Amazon maybe give it a try. At least free park entrance is a good perk. 2. Horrible 3. Disney does not have an engineering-first culture because it’s not a tech company. You will have to work in a very political environment and with mediocre engineering practices and codebase. I’ve worked at 4 different companies, but Disney has the worst engineering talent. Tech interviews were the easiest as well, meaning everyone can get hired here. 4. Reorgs: there has been two major reorgs in last 6,7months or so. Disney is trying to eat up all the other culture and control everything. It’s a mess after hulu acquisition
I’m former DSS / Product org. This feedback is accurate.
Current employee, agree on all but 2 :)
1. Probably. Amazon probably won’t see the crazy growth it has in the past. We will likely see a decent bump after the pandemic as parks come back (even though streaming subs have been slowing down as well so who knows). 2. Team-specific. Good on my team. Leaning towards too boring even. 3. Most of us can’t count to 5 without skipping numbers. You’ll fit in great here 😉 5. No pip culture, and not frequent re-orgs, but the Hulu merger has been a rough one with a mass exodus. I don’t know what the numbers are like, but I know they’re really bad. Also, that’s a solid offer for remote.
Disney’s content strategy is to keep milking the MCU and Star Wars franchises until they become dry carcasses for its streaming services and theme parks. When that’s done, they are probably screwed or just need to acquire another franchise or come up with more Disney princesses
I wonder if Marvel really knew how the MCU would take off, or if they just thought it would be a cool Easter egg to have Sam Jackson show up at the end of iron man. It's such a moon shot, but it actually landed
Your offer looks solid, but the general morale is messy here at the moment. Lots of people on their way out the door, including upper management. Probably at least one major reorg on the horizon with the departure of some higher ups. No pip culture at the moment because they can't keep people around anyways. I know people who have been working 20 hours a week for the past year and they got glowing perf reviews. With the departure of JI the crunch culture will probably cool off a bit, but that's yet to be seen. Fingers crossed.
Congrats, very good offer
Btw, the bonus isn’t not 20% max. Every year there’s multiplier. For example, this year I got 1.6x of 20% which is 32%. Pls confirm w your recruiter :)
That is a very good offer for P4.
Ad platform is the shittiest of them all, favoritism, nepotism, friendism, literally all -ism u name it they have it! Leadership is a joke and have no idea of the tech/project roadmap. Its filled with all incompetent people and morale probably the lowest of all Org within legacy Hulu. I would much rather join content/ or sublife/growth engineering teams.
This is completely wrong. I’m in Ad and it’s amazing.
Sounds like any teams in Disney tbh
OP - did you accept the offer?
OP, did you accept the offer ? I am also in the same situation. Some, of the comments from Hulu employees here making me thinking more about it.
I would say that if you have a good feeling about the team, org, and you like the offer, why not? Many of us have been complaining because many perks and benefits have gone away which is not relevant for you. Also we have to deal with the pains of working for a much larger company, deal with bureaucracy and less efficient processes. Again something you are likely to find in many large companies. As P4 you are in the better paid side of the spectrum.
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