Big unfortunate letdown - Anonymous employee Gravillis Employee Review

1.0
Jul 4, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The studio looks really trendy & cool and has a nice terrace/patio where they hold birthday celebrations and happy hours every now and then; it definitely has a very "design-y" feel to it. As a brand, Gravillis Inc has a rather streamlined identity that is very congruent with the type of work they produce. A handful, and I mean literally a handful (if that), of the people were really awesome. There's good opportunities to work on cool indies & documentaries and they like to promote from within. Also, there's a nice park within walking distance that's great for lunches or breaks.

Cons

As a creative, when I first started working at Gravillis, I was beyond excited and pumped to work at a place that had such a cool look to it. Sadly, it all came crashing down once I realized how awful the environment really was. The "coolness" of it all was just a facade. There was never any unity or sense of team at this studio. People would badmouth one another and it was very clear most people didn't like each other. At all. You would walk in, hear the same music playing and nobody would be talking to one another. You could cut the tension with a knife. Seriously, I've been to libraries more lively and exciting than this. The "leaders" over in the creative side would talk with such a condescending tone and would say the most rude things. It became pretty apparent that they lacked any leadership skills. All in all, everyone was pretty bitter. The owners had this mentality that if you weren't willing to give up your life to work at this place it meant that you were "weak" and/or that you didn't "want it bad enough". That meant they would accept tons of projects without giving a hoot about whether or not their overworked employees could take on more. Of course, they would only come in a few hours a day, so they wouldn't care or even know. Additionally, there was a clear divide between the men and the women and the administration did nothing to fix this. On the contrary, one time there was this "women's meeting" where they basically told the female designers that they had to work extra hard to prove to the guys that they "weren't weak" and that they "deserved to be there". Not even kidding, it was something straight out of the 1960s. On the less serious issues, the design area is open so you get zero privacy and there isn't enough parking spots for everyone, so some people are left to find parking in the surrounding neighborhood. Not surprisingly, Gravillis has a rather high turnover rate.

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