Dacast Reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

Stephane Roulland

56% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
1.0
10 May 2022

Going downhill

Recommend
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Pros

The company was interesting for two years.

Cons

The Chairman recently took over as CEO. The problem is that he knows nothing about tech or the video streaming industry. He is a real estate guy and a control freak. The whole company is depressed and a lot of people are let go.

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Dacast Response
4y
This review is a retaliation from a marketing contractor (Samy Thuilier) who has been terminated due to misbehavior and lack of competencies.
1.0
14 Feb 2020

a learning experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- kind and really smart people - lunch on fridays - opportunity to work on different projects and learn new things - staff tries hard to make things work, sometimes things do!

Cons

- lack of communication between teams, especially with time differences between offices. Hard to know what is going on - seems to be a lack of overall direction and timelines are either never set or always changes. Sometimes projects will start and go nowhere - company culture is uncomfortable, hard to continue working in a place where people seem so discontent - lack of documentation, process and HR wise, requests for employee financial documentation ignored - uncomfortable and shady business practices Full time 40 hour+/week "interns" are paid stipends of 1200 - 2000 USD/month (14400 - 24000 annually) Note that SF minimum wage is $30,400 annually. *This is public info and found on the job posting.* - Can be difficult to work with upper management. The CEO has very high standards, but can be picky and kind of rude to employees and people will occasionally have to work around him to get things done rather than work with him in a productive manner

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Dacast Response
6y
We are sorry to hear you did not have the best experience at Dacast. We are surprised, however, to see your review since it appears that nothing was ever said to anyone in the management about the communication problems you experienced and so we never had the opportunity to address those issues. We do indeed pride ourselves in having high expectations and standards for our team who, for the most part, work hard and well to meet them. The same applies to your comments about documentation and HR processes - we are a small company, and so some of these issues are handled informally, but we would have appreciated your feedback to help us improve while you were here. Some of our employees began as J-1 program trainees and student interns indeed but rapidly evolved in the company, earning bonuses and salary increases. Many have later joined us as full-time employees. We also make almost all company information available to our employees, other than personal compensation information. Personal access to each employee's data is also provided through direct access to our payroll platform, an access that is not removed when an employee leaves the company.
1.0
18 Apr 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Learn a lot about using video streaming software. Learn a lot about video streaming.

Cons

Over the past 2 months, management attitude towards employees has taken a nose dive. Interns are expected to perform as regular paid employees without any incentives from management. Employee discontent is very high. Communication between similar teams is difficult because management only confides to one or two employees.

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