Horrible, Horrible, and again Horrible - Freelance Artist Paizo Employee Review

1.0
Jun 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-you get to be admired by geeky nerds who are a small fan base for this badly designed tabletop game. -looks relatively okay on your resume

Cons

- very low pay. Design of character from scratch, pose, sketch to a finished detailed color is $150 only... Absolutely unacceptable for the size of this company and considering how much money it makes from their publishing. - because of such low pay, expectations for quality end up being low too. This makes the job easy but boring as hell. - poor to no art direction. I have worked as an outsourcing coordinator and lead artist before and what we did at my work was night and day compared to Paizos managers. - incompetent creative design director. No basic knowledge of art fundamentals. No feedback let alone drawovers or any notes. Rude and one worded email responses. - the worst communication in my professional career experience. I had to wait for the creative design director to reply to me for 2 weeks sometimes with multiple emails sent from my side to remind them i sent an email or a simple question. And after 2 weeks, even when they finally replied, they rarely answered my questions. - still waiting for my money. It's taking them forever to send money even though on the contracts it says they send money after 2 months from order due date. At first i got payments on time. Then as i kept working with them more everything went down the drain. My last payment i waited for 3 months to get it and had to remind them twice that im still missing it. Now its been almost 5 months and i still havent received my next due payment. I have contacted them on multiple occasions and have waited for a response for 2 weeks now.

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5.0
Apr 15, 2023
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Pros

-Pleasant coworkers -Inclusive culture -If you're into their products, they have lots of goodie bags for employees and conversation about their products -Smaller company means it's easier to have an individual relationship with higher-ups -They have a weekly officers meeting where updates are shared across the entire company to know where company heading is going

Cons

-Was previously mostly physical billing and records, though they were transitioning to digital when my contract expired

3.0
Jun 8, 2025
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Pros

Decent vacation and sick time Union Representation

Cons

Cliquey office culture Overworked Underpaid

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