DreamWorks Animation reviews

They kicked all of tech off of the Flower campus and relocated all of us at a call center in Glendale. Oh - it's not zoned for food preparation, so you get whatever they can jam into a van and drive over. This means there's no grill to enjoy if you're done having boiled eggplant and kale for the 4th time that week. The new space's water is borderline non-potable (verified by independent testing that TDS was barely legal), facilities consistently breakdown - nothing like walking through a lake of toilet water in an office space. It also means you no longer have access to the on-site medical facility, or any medical facilities. There used to be health stations at every break room with OTC medications, and bandages. I haven't seen a single one of these since we were moved. Since NBCU took over, it's been a downhill slide. Health insurance was changed so if you use Kaiser, you could pay up to $1500/month for single 'coverage'. Little things, like bus passes - used to be a benefit to get you to use mass transit. A metro pass was $30. Now they offer "use pretax dollars to buy one" at more than what it costs to just buy one from metro. Thanks DWA! Soft benefits, I know, but they add up. How about culture? Well, before NBCU we used to have wrap parties when we'd complete a movie. This most recent feature we were told "Don't you think you should wait to see if it makes money before you party?" That sums up the culture shift. How about the quality of our products? Our TV division is doing its best to make us Hannah-Barbera 2.0 and we haven't had a hit in so long that I'm not surprised they're letting someone else do the Shrek reboot. Does it sound like I'm whining a little? Ask our VP who just quit over it all.

Not much room to move up. Management lies. Many jobs outsourced to India and China over the years. Pay is well below average considering the required skill set. They employed an accounting trick to keep weekly salaries stable but low in order to keep a lid on overtime costs, which is now illegal and no longer practiced. Used to be a great studio but poorly managed aggressive expansion, unrealistic production goals, spending millions of dollars on pushing movies into full production without a complete idea of the whole story and ignoring the deafening cries of the staff resulted in many rounds of layoffs over the years. Those responsible for the horrible missteps were fired years too late.