How is Disney streaming work culture now (wlb,career progression, job security)? Interviewing for a lead de role ! Tc :220k yoe:10yrs #disney #disneystreamingservices
Disney streaming is a relatively independent entity vs the rest of the Disney organizations, so there are things that are more or less applicable when people discussing Disney as a whole. Wlb is team, project and self dependent. I know people in other team that was working over time(10am to like 8pm) for a period of time when major releases were happening. Have also heard people complaining during all hands too. But I have not experience it myself nor my team. The time for heavier workload is when the management just shove some major product features with a tight timeline, but that usually comes with a priority shift rather than working on parallel projects. For career progression then working extra hours usually boost the performance and hence speed things up a little, same as everywhere else. Overall career progression is slow and there are lots of people sitting at the same level for a really long time imo. Job security wise, I have only seen pip once, and that person wasn’t contributing much for months so no surprise there. Generally people are friendly and supportive, stress is pretty low.
Thanks for the detailed information! Appreciate it !so overall it’s seems like a good company to work for !
No problem. It’s good on the areas that you’re looking for. It does have its ugly side too. I would give it a 3 out of 5 given the current state of the company. Just to name a few problems, - disconnects from the management, - compensation not competitive, - bad roadmap planning, - weak product ownerships, - low morale with merger/re-orgs - weak company culture and identity besides the “Disney magic”
Do they offer complete remote or work from Seattle office options?
The position is for NYC or Seattle office not remote .
I got the remote role. No hurdles
That’s actually great ! I am going to talk to the recruiter on that !
Thanks 🙏🏽 that’s a very good suggestion my recruiter actually sounded exactly like what you said they are ok with remote but they want near office remote and that works for me.
I work for Disney+ and am working on launching it internationally. Wlb=more than 40 hrs a week. Career progression=0, I don’t think you can grow professionally. You must be amazing and there are people that are amazing and haven’t grown professionally. People just moved to other companies. I think if you are a Director and up you are ok. If you are manager of people, sr. Whatever…, you will not move up Job security: for sure. Personal opinión: Not sure what your role is. I’m in product and I personally thing that the relationship with engineering is the worst. There are no sprints, too many ridiculous processes. It seems like we are following processes of 1990. It’s such a huge organization, and the work you do will be small and have no real impact as in other companies. I don’t feel is a tech organization. I’m surprise the product is so good. I’m going to join another company. I feel there will be no way to sell all the work I have been doing which is a lot, but I haven’t worked on anything with real impact.
Thanks for the candid reply! Appreciate it ! I will be in mle org hoping that is better.
If you accept the offer, you can work there and if you don’t like it you can always move somewhere else. It’s a good brand.
How was your interview OP?
Sql and python based also some spark questions.
Did you get an offer?
Can I DM you, OP?
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Hi OP Can you share some details about interview ? Recruiter mentioned that they will also ask CI-CD and API and software lifecycle related questions for DE interview? Is that the case ?
They did ask ci-cd for me everything else was python sql and spark.
Can you give example of any ci cd question?
Steer clear of Disney that is a huge outsourcer and insourcer of tech jobs.
Tbh I heard dss is different than the main Disney org!
Indeed, DMED/DSS is very tech focused, so it's a different vibe and focus than parks or the likes