The studio that people warn you about. Steer clear. - Artist Machine Union Employee Review

1.0
Nov 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- They buy cake whenever someone leaves or gets fired, which is fairly often.

Cons

- Employees are way underpaid. - Constantly stretches to truth to make themselves look good. - No recognition of talent. Crappy artists get fired, good ones leave. - The whole studio is micromanaged. - Their pipeline is terribly wasteful and inefficient. - They require you to work without shoes on. (I still don't know why.) - Schedules are firm. They decide when you take lunches, breaks, and when you go home. - Software is out of date. Requests for software take months to process, if ever. - The studio deters the artists from working on personal projects or updating their portfolio. - Zero perks of any kind.

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Pros

Great Leadership from the CEO and CFO

Cons

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1.0
Dec 12, 2013
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Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Absolutely, positively, irrefutably, doubtlessly, none.

Cons

-The whole hiring process feels very predatory and geared towards(if not founded on) preying on recent graduates naiveté. -Before you're hired they tell you you'll make $34k to $37k annually which is bizarre because its pays by the hour. Then you find out after you're hired you only make $13.90/hr and for the first 90 days its only $11/hr, try living off that. -When I was an employee there were only 4 people there that had actual industry experience outside of that company. Including the supervisors. -Your direct supervisors are HANDS.DOWN. the worst, most awkward and uncomfortable communicators I have ever encountered. -The pipeline is a maze of uselessness that even the director has very little idea about anymore. Once, our source files for one project were inside 37 empty folders in 3 different drives which served no purpose. -I timed how long it took to submit anything through the pipeline, it took 14 minutes for one single submission. - You're treated more like a child than a professional. - No benefits what so ever. - You never know whats going on with the company or a game, everything is very hush hush. - You are not allowed to have a professional website, personal projects, or work on your portfolio or put anything you've done for the company in your portfolio even after the game has been published.

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