Smart and Easygoing - Anonymous employee Flixster Employee Review

Several mentors who are very supportive in having you do projects you would like to do and helping with career advancement Get to watch movies before they are released! Stocked Kitchen (Free drinks, breakfast, snacks, coffee) Macbook Pro or Lenovo Thinkpad (+ RAM boost) CEO tried to get to know me--tried to get me interested in a full-time job Engineering Management paid lunch to talk with us Culture: breakfast, lunch paid on first and last days of internship Coworkers from Stanford, Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, etc.

No Zip Line I don't drink but my coworkers do Seriously, none that I can think of

* Completely open culture where everyone is encouraged to give their coworkers regular feedback, so you don't have that fear and uncertainty about how you're doing. The engineering managers are fun, sincere, communicative people on top of being brilliant and hardworking. They genuinely want to help you improve your professional / life skills. * Smart technical colleagues you can approach to discuss any problem you have, and they often suggest sexy new technologies that might help you out. * Autonomy, opportunities to take lead on high-profile projects and easy to transition between teams / projects. I can't speak for the non-engineering side of the company, but everyone at engineering seems very satisfied.

* No free lunches or company-sponsored happy hours / ski trips (they will sponsor those trips and outings if you volunteer to organize them though.) This is probably balanced out by our complete flexibility like working from home and taking half-days for doctor appointments, taking care of kids, etc. * Partnering with 3rd-party companies who are less efficient than we are, can be frustrating. * This is obvious but Flixster is not a rocket ship like AirBnb or Facebook was. Flixster will compensate you well and give lots of bonuses, but it's no longer a million-dollar lottery ticket to an IPO, if that's what you're looking for.