MPC Reviews

Pros

Amazing people, you can learn a lot and gain a lot of knowledge, its like a melting pot of people with diverse set of know how and hacks and cheats to finish your work quickly and properly. And they pay for taxi if you leave after 11pm

Cons

Montreal (quebec) have a high tax and cost of living, unless you have a family, the city is quite unaffordable to life in comfortably

Advice to Management

It would be nice if we were informed about the exorbitant amount of tax we have to pay just to work in montreal

Pros

Good shows and lot of creamy shots to work

Cons

Poor planning and no growth

Advice to Management

Nothing will change..

Pros

You will have a good opportunity and will experience faster than any other company

Cons

lower salary compared to the rest

Advice to Management

I wish MPC can take care of more their employees.

Pros

produces top level vfx, so many people to learn from and opportunities to develop your career if you put in the effort

Cons

some of the sites are less organised than others, communication between departments can be poor and cause unnecessary confusion when shows are poorly planned.

Advice to Management

work on communication and show planning to improve the workflow between departments and be more efficient with artists time

Pros

Good Good Good Good Good

Cons

Expect a lot of OT hours.

Advice to Management

Pay better

Pros

Possible to work on big projects and gain experience quickly. Opportunity to work on some decent shots for your reel. Most of the artists are nice people and the work is creatively rewarding. Paid OT.

Cons

Very low pay with little chance of a raise. Mismanagement of projects, schedules, and people. Sometimes it is like being in the twilight zone seeing junior artists given multiple insanely difficult and long shots that they are struggling with, while more senior artists are idle and begging for work. Deceptive practices to get employees to sign on or stay. Any verbal promises won’t be honored unless you can... get it in writing and everything HR says should be taken with a big grain of salt. Corporate lip service to things like employee mental health when artists and coords are treated as numbers and not as people. People are always quitting or being replaced. 40-50% across departments have quit within the last year. This includes artists, supes, leads, coords, all of HR, immigration, and even the people in charge of employee retention. The company doesn’t care since they see everyone as replaceable but are blissfully ignorant that some of the people who left were saving them a lot of money with their specific skill sets.

Advice to Management

You can do better. MPC’s name is pretty toxic in the industry now because of how the treat their employees. Stop setting up the departments and artists to fail by understaffing them or incentivizing them to backstab each other. The policy of severely underbidding and then expecting overworked and underpaid artists to save the day while on an outdated and slow pipeline isn’t working. The clients are catching... on since so many recent projects have delivered late and with inconsistent quality and the fault lies at the top.

Pros

excellent films, talented crew, latest tools, great snacks, beer o'clock, clubs, social events

Cons

lack of strategic planning, last minute crew decisions, firefighting

Advice to Management

create a plan and allow it to unfold

Pros

You will make movies for MPC and this is good for your Show Reel and CV.

Cons

Adapt to all kinds of disciplines and you will not make much money.