Technicolor Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Fantastic opportunities with a well rounded work education and experiences."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"Everything, challenging, rewarding, fun, open environment that has been very educational over the last 20 years."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Understand Digital Entertainment Technologies in order to match the experience they are loooking for."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"It is closing and I would like to be able to say I am being transitioned to a new facillity."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Help long term Salaried Employees transition into other areas of the company."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"The people I work with, the flexibility and autonomy to make decisions."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Research and understand the history of the company and the direction in which it is heading."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"The strategic direction (or lack there of) in which the company is heading."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your customers. Invest in your people. Crystallize the vision and direction of the company."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"Provide an opportunity to enhance skills. Very challenging environment to work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just to stay with the wave & do their best."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Things keep changing too quickly. Need to be more controlled."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To have more clear cut requirements. To have more long term strategy."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"Work and keep myself busy, motivate employees and work safe."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Maintain focus on production lines and keep inventory check from discrepancy."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Some of the chemicals they used were too harmful to me and others."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Organize to keep production moving with a safe manner and achieve the goal."

"Discriminated against Blacks, no A/C, chains on doors, minimum wage."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"There was nothing to like about working for this company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't work for Technicolor unless you are desperate for a job."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Technicolor is a major distribution company located in Memphis, TN. The company exploits the labor pool in Memphis in a way I've never seen before. The company only uses temporary labor and has many temporary employees that have worked for the company for years with no benefits, or raises, making only minimum wage. Everyone other than management makes minimum wage. When you arrive at the company you will think its a prison. There are security guards waving metal wands at everyone and checking purses and other belongings. You have to stand in line to get waved in and out. You can not bring a cell phone into the building and there are no phones for use within the building. Once you are inside the building you cannot leave for any reason, not even an emergency or they tell you its an automatic termination. You have no means to communicate with members of the outside for around 13 hours. There are chains on all the doors and there is only one way in and one way out. The city of Memphis looks the other way even though this is a violation of fire safety codes because Memphis has few jobs and wants to keep Technicolor happy.The temporary staffing agencies send out more people than they know is needed to make sure all positions are filled. They do not compensate for wasted gas if you cannot get inside to work. Technicolor is a long drive down a backroad on the outskirts of Memphis and if you show up and there are people already there you can't work. When you do work you have to show up hours early. Sometimes two hours early. Technicolor has onsite staff of mostly Hispanics and they would have the black employees stand in one line and the Hispanic workers in another line. Then the Hispanic line was always called first and assured a place in to work for the day. They say this was because all of the Hispanic workers had been made Core temps. Yet no black workers had been made Core temps. Also, the black workers standing at the end of the line would be made to write their entire social security numbers down on a sheet of paper being passed around and when they complained they were told they could not just write the last four numbers but the entire number. This paper would eventually make it to the Hispanics who were standing in line up front, many of whom were copying their social security numbers down from torn off sheets of paper. After I left Technicolor, for years I received W2 forms from jobs I had never worked all the way out as far as California. There was no vacation or benefits of any kind. If you got sick or missed a day for any reason you could be permanently banned from Technicolor. Even if you couldn't always get placed. They would call you no matter what time and expect you to show if they had an opening. They wouldn't give you but about 20 minutes. No matter what you were. And again they paid minimum wage and if you made it and they had changed their minds you were just out of luck. There was no compensation for your gas.I worked out there during the summer with one brief winter stint. During the summer there was no A/C and there were women fainting in the warehouse. Pregnant women would just pass out and they would call the ambulance. During the winter time people were so desperate to work they would show up hours early and be made to stand outside the building in below freezing weather for one to two hours in full view of management and security sitting on the inside of the building laughing and smiling in the warm. People would be shivering, their noses running, grown men and women, waiting to get in. The company and management/security was so callous they would not let people in to stand in the warm. If you sat in your car you would lose your place as again Technicolor took the first couple who showed up.The company never guaranteed an 8 hour day and if work became slow they would send you home. Even after 2 or 3 hours. It was very exploitative company with unsafe working conditions. To this day, I don't understand how they get away with chaining people inside that warehouse. A tornado had hit once and again all the doors were chained and people did not have anyway out other than through the front but security and chains was blocking that too. So people covered themselves even as parts of the roof blew off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invent a new system as the current one is exploitative and cruel and unsafe."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"Multiple paticiptions; dynamic problem raising and resolving process; individual contribution."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Sometimes I do not like the slow process to wait for a requested report."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More discussion of the current problems or difficulty so everyone can participate."

"I like the R and D department I have been working with."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"There is a great working atmosphere at the location where I have my office."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Company hasn't hired anyone in my group in quite a while."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Headquartered in France so I don't get opportunity to meet some executives."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I only know my immediate manager but I like his methods."

"It's a great experience but the company is changing due to technology evolution."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"It's a very structured company with lots to offer in the global market."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Technology base service is not ideal in the long run to employees like me."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. They know what they're doing, especially with the way technology is taking most of the workload that humans normally would do."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"Creative, new technologies constantly introduced, supporting domestic and international users."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do research and read up on how well the company is doing before apply."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"This company has too many changes to the company organization within months apart."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less changes to the company organization within months apart."

"Good experience over all."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"Technology, and the opportunity to work with senior developers and talented designers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"be specific, get specific answers, get what you need upfront, if not, walk away."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Management needs to hold their vision, and lack of faith will defeat the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the trends and employees with the notion of actually acting on the suggestions."

"I was a sheep and the second I was voiced opinions I was dealt with."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"They where constantly changing, and the technology that was available was very nice."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know that this company fired 2/3 of its top management and will be in transition for the next 3 years at a minimum."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"No quality leadership, OLD ideas of technology education and a blind sight into the future of digital media."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Too much change in the system and a monthly change of upper management. WHO WAS MY BOSS."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"The people there were very professional and good to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No. They have a lot of products so just do some research."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"Too stationary, not fully able or willing to be more proactive with customers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take more control of products quality. Spends too much time reacting to issues as opposed to doing due diligence."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"The technology and the growth of the company has been good."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"The instability and ambiguity and lack of bigger picture on launch."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Clarity and achievable milestones, motivation of employees and clear direction."

What do you like about working at Technicolor?

"I liked the fast pace environment. There were always challenges presented."

What don't you like about working at Technicolor?

"I didn't like always having to worry about who was going to lose their job next as the company experienced a considerable amount of downsizing over a 3 - 5 year period."