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Dolby creates surround sound, imaging, and voice technologies for cinemas, home theaters, PCs, mobile devices, games, and more. read more
Dolby Laboratories Company Culture
Dolby Laboratories Culture
This score is derived from employee ratings & reviews3.3/5
Dolby Laboratories' Overall Culture is rated C
Top Rated Culture Dimensions
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BPerks & Benefits
BCEO Rating
BDiversity
BOutlook
B-Dolby Laboratories CEO
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Kevin Yeaman
70 /100
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Mission, Vision, & Values
Dolby Laboratories has been a leading solutions provider to the entertainment industry for more than 45 years. We provide products, services, and technologies to capture, distribute, and play back entertainment content that gives consumers a premium entertainment experience, regardless of how or where they choose to enjoy it. Our core strengths range from our expertise in digital signal processing and compression technology to our long history of providing products, tools, and technologies to participants in the entertainment industry at each stage in the content creation, distribution, and playback process. We provide products and services that enable content creators and distributors to produce, encode, and transmit content with our premium audio technologies, and we license decoding technologies to the manufacturers of entertainment devices to ensure that content is ultimately experienced as the creator and distributor intended.
Dolby Laboratories Culture At a Glance
Dolby Laboratories has 2100 employees. 82 employees at Dolby Laboratories have reviewed Dolby Laboratories across various culture dimensions, providing their opinions on items ranging from executive ratings to the pace at work. The latest review was months ago.
Overall, the 82 Dolby Laboratories employees give their leadership a grade of C-, or Bottom 35% of similar size companies on Comparably. This includes specific ratings of their executive team, CEO, and manager.
Employees at Dolby Laboratories are pleased with their total compensation at Dolby Laboratories, which includes a combination of pay, stock and equity, and benefits.
Overall, employees at Dolby Laboratories are generally satisfied with their team. 82 Participants grade the quality of their coworkers a C. The majority believe the meetings at Dolby Laboratories are effective, and the majority look forward to interacting with their coworkers.
The majority of employees at Dolby Laboratories believe the environment at Dolby Laboratories is positive. Most Participants believe the pace of work at Dolby Laboratories is comfortably fast. About 49% of the employees at Dolby Laboratories work 8 hours or less, while 2% of them have an extremely long day - longer than twelve hours.
Overall, the employees at Dolby Laboratories are generally happy, based on their aggregated ratings of future outlook, customer perception, and their excitement going to work.
A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life
Dolby Laboratories employees generally work 9.1 hrs a day
Work Hours
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Employees at Dolby Laboratories report the work pace is comfortably fast
Work Pace
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On a typical day, employees at Dolby Laboratories have 2 meetings
Meetings
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75% of Dolby Laboratories employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
Coworkers
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Dolby Laboratories employees most often take 20-30 paid vacation and sick days each year
Perks & Benefits
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77% of Dolby Laboratories employees report they are happy with their work life balance
Work Life Balance
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Dolby Laboratories employees never get valuable feedback on how to improve at work
Feedback
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76% of Dolby Laboratories employees call their work environment positive
Environment
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How does Dolby Laboratories make decisions around promotions?
They stretch it out for years
How difficult is it to maintain a social life while in your job at Dolby Laboratories?
Not hard at all.
How's the leadership on the Engineering team at Dolby Laboratories?
Not good. Seriously. Why can't we hire more qualified people. Not just people who can talk?
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at Dolby Laboratories?
People who are obviously under performers, who time and time again almost refuse to do their job should just be let go. Other than that,...
How long after an interview at Dolby Laboratories does it take to hear back?
Depends how interested they are
How does Dolby Laboratories make decisions around promotions?
They stretch it out for years
How difficult is it to maintain a social life while in your job at Dolby Laboratories?
Not hard at all.
How's the leadership on the Engineering team at Dolby Laboratories?
Not good. Seriously. Why can't we hire more qualified people. Not just people who can talk?
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at Dolby Laboratories?
People who are obviously under performers, who time and time again almost refuse to do their job should just be let go. Other than that,...
How long after an interview at Dolby Laboratories does it take to hear back?
Depends how interested they are
H1B Visa
In 2019, Dolby Laboratories applied for 44 H1B visas. Of the work permits applied for, 100% were approved.
Work Permit Application Outcome
Dolby Laboratories has a total of 2100 employees
44
Total Applied
H1B Applications Outcome
- 100% Granted (44 out of 44)
- 0% Denied ( out of 44)
- 0% Withdrawn Application was withdrawn by the employer before approval/rejection ( out of 44)
- 0% Certified-Withdrawn Application was approved but later withdrawn by employer ( out of 44)
This data was calculated using publicly sourced data from OFLC Performance Data
Gender Score How positively women rate their overall experience at Dolby Laboratories
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Dolby Laboratories currently ranks in the Top 50% of similarly sized companies on Comparably
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Dolby Laboratories currently ranks in the Top 35% of similarly sized companies on Comparably
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eNPS
Net Promoter Score tracks your employees' overall score to this question: "On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend working at your company to a friend?"Top 50%Top 50% of Similar Size Companies on Comparably
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eNPS Score
| 39% | Promoters |
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| 24% | Passives |
| 37% | Detractors |
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