Digital Domain Reviews

Pros

the people really make this company

Cons

laptops are not very good

Pros

The people I work with at a show level - fellow coordinators, the artists even dept leads and sups are all great. Framework for training exists but is underutilized - there are dozens of out of date articles on the intranet, but it has the potential to be good.

Cons

-Buggy pipeline - RV crashes multiple times a day and people share work arounds like they're video game cheat codes "I heard if you close it 3 times and then only have one person sync to you and then close your session again and resync it will work" Meanwhile all we hear from systems is "we're looking into it" -Upper management is a mess and often seems to have no idea who is doing what on their shows -OT and crunch keep creeping up earlier and earlier in the projects. I've been on shows that are crunching for half the time they're with DD - No OT meal vouchers on most shows. Been doing OT every night for weeks and weeks. If we were in studio they'd feed us. It's not like I have time to cook but because I'm at home it's fine to ask me to spend my own money on delivery.

Pros

One of the better internal promotion paths I have seen, for those that want it and can stick with it.

Cons

Calling what they have here a "pipeline" seems too generous. Often times it is a text file with the necessary naming scheme for saving your files. Many of the day to day tools have barely been updated in the last decade. Communication and documentations are virtually nonexistent. I often found myself in the dark on what to do or how to do it, and reaching out for help can be even more confusing since everyone seems to have their own 'right' way to do it. They seem to keep forgetting that Montreal has a different time zone. I have lost track of how many time I have had to remind people that I am off 3 hours before them, as they try to text me at 8pm.

Pros

Pays well. Work from home.

Cons

Seemed pretty disorganized. Very reliant on Marvel as a client. Lots of legacy tools that seem dated.

Pros

WFH, nice amount of OT, decent pay, interesting projects, good fellow artists. It’s easy to disconnect from work allowing for a nice life/work balance

Cons

HR department is not reliable, they will ghost you when you try to get in contact, they seem to only work 10am-4pm and 3/5 days a week which is a nightmare for any foreign nationals. The pipeline is archaic or nonexistent to say the least, processes that should be 1 click, take half an hour to do (if you’re lucky), proprietary tools are buggy, broken or useless. There is no consistent structure or management throughout shows making shows extremely disorganized. There is a huge lack of documentation on most procedures and if it does exist, it’s incomplete or outdated. Feels like mushroom management

Pros

Great environment with kind people

Cons

Ok pay and some OT

Pros

Great artists, lots of fun communication between the artists in gchat- lighting groups etc. It really helps you not feel isolated when WFH. Good pay if you can negotiate but you need to push for it Great HOD and currently have a good artist manager for lighting. From time to time there's a fun project, but for the most part you are there for the people no matter what department you're in. When covid hit, while they did take a while to look into it, they managed to have us work from home and we have been successful in this for the past 2 and a half years.

Cons

2020 when covid hit, artists had their hourly pay cut (some let go) but the artists kept on continued with large work loads. We worked overtime on our paycuts, our hours should have been cut, not hourly rate. This is when DD started to come across as corporate and it was a reminder that we are indeed just numbers. While this event has passed, I want to have this up on Glassdoor so people can see how this company behaved during covid. A lot of unnecessary overtime. No matter how many times head of departments say they're addressing it, it's still a problem. Too many supervisors, it's like they're butting heads trying to get in the most notes, trust your senior artists more, there's a reason they don't want to become a leads at DD. New pipeline is always in the works, always broken. Feels like a long term startup company. Contracts renewed at the 11th hour so we lose good artists to other studios

Pros

Best team, great mgmt, good projects

Cons

Need more time and resources

Pros

solide pipeline, great artists and team over all!

Cons

not much cons to be honest!

Pros

The people are great to work with.

Cons

Nothing at this time that I can think of.