DreamWorks Animation reviews

Not exclusive to this company, but not all Senior Managers are created equal Unusual lack of respect from managers to subordinates. I find colleagues leaving teams of people waiting at a meeting because it's completely acceptable here Meeting heavy, primarily because emails often go unread Planning on the non-creative side (referred to as "Overhead") lacks systems and structure At the higher levels, employee reviews are often not done - instead a bonus check is simply handed over with no words or insight on performance, development path, etc

*You're only as good as your current boss says you are, no matter how excellent previous performance is, and a bad supervisor (which is endemic there) can break your career and fire you without any warning *Supervisors have dismal training in actual people skills; coordinators get promoted to supervisor if they have the technical saavy, which has *nothing* to do with whether they can manage PEOPLE *Don't ever, EVER trust H.R. -- they're there to protect the company. Period. *Artists rule; production people are expendable *You have to cater to the artists every whim, even if they're lazy and have low productivity *Narcissistic supervisors, editors, and executives make the work miserable no matter how 'pretty' the campus -- everyone's out for their careers and stomp over whoever they need to *Very clique-oriented. Prepare to re-live high school -- the men act are worse than sixth grade girls. *No, I wasn't fired. I left after I saw how people were treated and didn't want to stand in line to be another victim.