One exciting place to work as an engineering, and help post, monetize, and watch youtube videos! - Software Engineer Movieclips Employee Review

As someone who has bounced around from one content based tech start-up to another, I feel like I hit the jackpot when I landed my position at MOVIECLIPS (now rebranded as ZEFR). This is a company that values talent, ambition and loyalty. If you are lucky enough to posses such a trifecta, you will progress in this company rapidly. It's crazy to think that ZEFR has trippeled in size since I joined the team, and somehow the structure and foundations have managed to grow with it. The founders are great guys with a genuine interest in the lives, talents, and creativity of their employees. They recently sunk a ton of money into pool of company equipment so that everyone could continue to create their own content. Sales and upper management have their fingers on the pulse of the tech future and the engineering team is producing groundbreaking stuff every week. The whole company is fueled by innovation, which is great because there is always room for creativity.

Everyone tends to complain about the starting salary, but few people dig deeper than that. MOVIECLIPS tends to hire people who major in film, television, music and production almost right out of college (where most entertainment employers in LA are just looking for unpaid interns). For some people, this is the first job they'll have where they can put all that college learning to the test. Those inclined to work hard and those who take on the culture and become active in company activities tend to stick around and ZEFR incentivises that kind of loyalty. Those who are just there to complete an easy eight hours of work don't last, but everyone who walks through the doors get's to put ZEFR experience on their resume (a credit which seems to be of increasing value to new employers).

Some of the most amazing people work here. Especially if you're young and moving out to LA this is a great place to meet some cool people. There's also a lot of fun and exciting stuff going on at MovieClips. There's a basketball hoop, a snow cone and popcorn machine, random parties when the company achieves a big goal, and field trips to Comicon or the latest blockbuster that's out in theaters.

The pay is awful, especially for LA you can hardly afford to squeeze by. When you are promoted out of Content team (where most people start out) you have twice the responsibility and often still no raise. When you do get a raise you make $12.50 instead of $10.00 an hour at a job you could easily be making $40,000 a year for at a different company. It's no wonder the turnover rate is terrible. Every week one to two people leave the company.