Warner Bros. Discovery reviews

* High burnout, high attrition, low morale across the entire direct-to-consumer division * Working at WBD is a neverending series of mergers, re-orgs, platform unifications and relaunches of existing products * Streaming is still a second class citizen at WBD. Corporate leadership only sees streaming as means to an end but does not understand that building a world-class streaming service requires money, time and longterm commitment * DTC leadership thinks that hiring tech industry people automatically translates to having a great tech organization, when in reality DTC operates more like a 3rd tier tech company (at best) * Amateurish software development lifecycle practices and complete lack of longterm planning * Leadership's inability to communicate plans or stay committed to announced plans longer than a minute * No career development or advancement options, Employees in some parts of the company have literally not had performance reviews in over 3 years, let alone promotions. * Corporate culture is little more than lip service. Employee travel between offices is disallowed or discouraged, and the only thing that actually brings coworkers together is shared dissatisfaction with WBD * WBD considers Max Ultimate subscription plan to be too expensive to waste on employees. So if you're wondering how much WBD values employees, the answer is $15.99/month - and not a cent more

Morale is terrible. Constant layoffs. Pinching pennies. A very two-faced leadership team. They want you to do more with even less after every round of layoff. No loyalty for those who’ve been at the legacy company for 10-20+ years. No promotions for the those who’ve worked their tails off - just making it harder to get it done with new performance evaluation systems. But somehow certain teams get their promotions through while other teams are SOL. Way to promote people in one cycle and then lay them off in the next - why would you let go of top performers? You should have never rebranded HBO Max to Max. The old purple branding coupled with HBO made it a cool brand and recognizable. Everything was cool and I was proud to wear the company on my chest. Now the Max service is diluted with crappy unscripted shows from Discovery that no one cares about. You should hide them in their own navigation. People are still bitter about Discovery taking away WarnerMedia’s remote policy during COVID. The forced hybrid model wasn’t a good look from management. Management hasn’t done anything good or nice for it’s employees for making them sit through multiple rounds of layoffs. In fact, they held a summer social events and then had mass layoffs shortly thereafter. Talk about backstabbing staff into thinking they were celebrating employees.