Pros
Co-workers were lovely and great to work with. The kitchen was usually pretty stocked with snacks. The office was within walking distance from several stores and restaurants. Desks were stand-up desks, so that was good given that most desk jobs have you sitting for multiple hours. Equipment was for the most part provided for.
Cons
At first, working at Newscape was okay until crunch culture became an issue. Myself and other employees would work well into the AM, myself working until 4am just to meet weekly deadlines (multiple 10-minute episodes would be posted weekly for several YouTube channels). Management would be approached about issues within the animation pipeline (which they had very little knowledge of despite the majority of their employees being animators) and would give several excuses as to why it couldn't be improved or that there wasn't time/money to improve. After management found attempts in a private discord server to unionize (as well as statements made out of frustration due to the conditions), Newscape cut the majority of their animation team under the reason that the "employee handbook was violated". It wasn't until after everyone was terminated that more specific reasons were given when several employees tried to file for unemployment and were ultimately denied. Several other employees quit after the office was locked down for 3 hours, with management saying that "the police were on their way", when it was actually private security, essentially saying that if we left the premises we were resigning. The entire situation was horribly mishandled; no corrective action, no one-on-one meetings, no office-wide meetings to discuss anything that was said that was taken out of context, or to discuss how to resolve any of the problems brought up. I get that Texas is an at-will state, but human decency was completely thrown out the window when many employees sacrificed a lot for this company. Several had moved to completely new cities just to work in-person, which management encouraged so strongly that they wouldn't allow remote/at-home work for certain employees that couldn't drop everything and move. Turns out it was all for nothing given that the office we were stationed at was closed after mass-termination and everyone still working at the company is indefinitely working from home. In short, poor management led to mass-termination of full-time animators within 2 days with no warning. I'm just disappointed at this point with the lack of compassion from the management team. Instead of communicating with employees, they punished 17 people by putting them out of work before the holidays.