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DreamWorks Animation

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Skipper let Gillian beach the Minnow - Production Artist DreamWorks Animation Employee Review

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.

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5.0
Dec 17, 2025
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Pros

Free breakfast and Lunch, an amazing work culture, work life balance, and the best team you can work with

Cons

Salary is less than other competitors (Disney, WB, Netflix, etc.)

3.0
Jan 22, 2026
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Pros

free food free swag nice enough people

Cons

very low pay with no room for upward mobility

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