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DreamWorks Animation reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(119 total reviews)

Margie Cohn

78% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

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3.0
Mar 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Talented artists, great campus, many learning opportunities, free food, decent benefits, reasonable hours relative to the industry at large, plenty of parties.

Cons

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.

3.0
Mar 10, 2016

Overall, It's what you make it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free food! So many benefits (yoga, nutritionist, movies, events) that sometimes it does, in fact, feel like a dream. To be surrounded by so many creatives.

Cons

Very hard to move up or transition between departments. Morale is low due to poor performance.

1.0
Feb 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working for a big name corporation may look impressive on your resume but you'll pay dearly for it if you stay for the long haul.

Cons

Far lower than average wages, little to no cost of living increase or raises, and low morale due to bad leadership and projects. It doesn't take long to see through the smoke and mirrors of free food that employees are truly unhappy.

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