Pros
- Coworkers (Dev/IT team and even in other departments) are great people to work with. - Versatile experience among the Dev team. - Desk and chairs are comfortable.
Cons
Pipeline Development: - No management ( only micro management from top executives ). - Terrible communication across all levels of the company. - They abolished sprints and agile management in favor of one man show coordination and verbal + random task association. - Development team is under the mercy of artists/supervisors who don't really know what they want. Makes the developer work impossible. - No followup / feedback. No one takes the time to test the tools made specially for production, but everything is urgent when they requested it, and they make sure to put the pressure on. - No Ticket management or filtering. Production complains on everything to devs regardless of the nature of the issue ( most of the time, it's lack of experience on the production floor ). A sample ticket is 99% of the time a one sentence saying "It's not working" and Support and Devs have to figure the rest out. - Dev have to support artist's scripts and tools, regardless of their experiences and the quality of the code. Overall: - No mid and long term goals, on a employee, team nor department level. - Lack of seniors artists on the floor. - Some great and experienced seniors are kept quiet and silenced when it comes to Technical Direction for show/shot. - No knowledge of Department TD's for support of day to day artist's requests, all the production requests falls in the Dev's hands, even the simplest scripts. - Arrogance in many employees with favoritism coming from top executives. - Production have preconceived ideas about developers, issues that they are dragging behind for years now. - Many coworkers have specialized experience, and have been silenced and asked to do what they are told regardless of the outcome. - Depressive work environment. - They will make you feel like you are less valued than you really are.