Hello, I am interested in transitioning from banking to entertainment and would love to learn what it’s like , do any offer remote opportunities, and what search filters would you suggest for someone who’s experienced in: process design, data analysis, excel/ tableau #entertainment #media #nbcuniversal #disney Current TC: 95k +3-7k bonus YOE: 2
Disney is the best place I’ve ever worked at. I can’t believe how relaxed everything is. I was traumatized by other jobs in the past. I actually do more here but it feels less stressful
What part of Disney are you in, how did you get in?
Nbcu has some remote positions but not many. They’re slowly taking away our flexibility of a “hybrid” model. We were required to come in once or twice a week and then they gave us a “common” day where we all hd to come in on Tuesdays and now starting in September we will all have to come in Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. A lot of disgruntled people after that announcement and I wouldn’t be surprised if they forced us all back full time by January. They claim its for the culture but the culture is just sitting in a huge loud room with a hundred distractions all around you. As for work life balance it doesn’t really exist, they expect you to be available for emergencies since its a 24/7 operation and so you’re constantly checking your work phone and you just get sucked into emails because there are people in locations all over the world so their work hours might be nighttime where you are and you see an email come through and then you end up logging in and working on it and when we were remote it was fine because you could make up the time whenever but now being back in the office it feels like you’re expected to still be checking emails after hours. And depending on your department there are a lot of really bad managers that don’t know how to manage people, my manager likes to manage with fear and it’s a pretty toxic department. I honestly can’t believe it’s on all these top 50 employer lists except that they have pretty good benefits.
If you were to move to another company where would you go?
Come to Paramount. We are 100% done with that bullshit, and you can be remote. You’ll also get paid more.
Paramount has better technology / WLB / pay than all of those companies.
What’s the tech culture like at Paramount? What’s the higher end of the TC range for experienced SWEs?
I received offers from Disney that were basically 100k TC under what I was making here, and they couldn’t even match Paramount, which sucks because I love Disney. But Paramount is great too. Tech culture seems to be very good. We just went through major shifts in technology over the last few years. Keep in mind there’s hundreds of teams here… some may be good, some may be bad. But job security here is incredible. We didn’t let anyone go during Covid and Bob Bakish seems to actually give a shit about employees. Higher ended TC is over 340k, but I’m not a SWE.
Paramount is pretty chill, I work in IT dep. My TC is like 85k YOE: <1
NBCU has a habit of putting people on 6 month to 18 month contracts, promising a conversion to full time, and then backing out. It happened to me and a lot of coworkers in the media vertical, so would recommend making sure the role you’re applying to is FT if you find one.
Disney does the same.
Thank you !
I've worked at both Disney and WarnerMedia and know some people at NBCU who were ex-Disney. WLB at these studios were generally great, Disney has better benefits for families (especially if you live near the parks). However, tech is lacking and with Bob Iger gone, there are a lot of disgruntled employees. I loved my time at Warner, however, John Stankey sold WM off to Discovery and I decided to leave at the time since there was just too much change going on. I still keep in touch with my old coworkers and plan on one day returning (maybe once WBD is acquired by someone else?). Remote work depends on which team/dept you're in. From what I've heard, they're mainly hybrid. Personally also interested in Paramount, seems like they're doing really well esp. with their tech.
Our tech is pretty modern, although like all companies we may still have legacy products. But we’re basically using modern technology for everything else. Huge remote culture too. DM for referral.
Data analyst. DM me. Depends on team at nbcu. There are lots of folks in tech who have wlb.
WLB is great. TC could be better but relative to the amount of hours you work, it's actually not that bad. IT is mostly remote if you are not supporting broadcast operations.
Disney is chill. Some positions remote. Maybe data analyst or associate data scientist.
Any recommendations for which line of business to look for or which teams are good?
Anything in the careers page, really. Every team is different. More hiring in DMED and streaming.