One team micromanages the rest of the company - Multimedia Developer SkyWest Airlines Employee Review

Pay. The worst part of working at SkyWest is how little they pay. In comparing similar positions in the area performing the same job functions SkyWest is paying 15-20K less per year than the fair market value. This leads to high turn over and SkyWest is ok hiring young artists and watching them leave in 2-3 years instead of finding ways to keep them and cultivate their talents. There is zero pay negotiation for prior experience or for added responsibilities, and no incentive for better performance. Despite there being a team called Creative Services there is no creative director, nor an art director to make sure branding stays consistent. This leads to huge inconsistencies in all creative disciplines. Because they don't have these positions to guide the creative process all projects are funneled through corporate communications. This team is making final decisions on everything from artwork on the walls, video edits, color choices, typography choices, iconography, and overall style for print and digital design, advertising strategy, social media managing and are an internal PR team as well. Each of these decisions should fall to a professional in each of those areas, and instead the process is micromanaged to the point of the designers and videographers being button pushers, with little to any real involvement in the creative process and very little room for creative control or ownership of a project as most of it is dictated from corporate communications. This micromanagement usually ends in the rejection of original ideas and the frequent copying of creative ideas from Delta, or other mainline airlines. Opposing viewpoints in this work dynamic are not welcomed and instead of being the beginning of discussion are seen as an attack to seniority and can end in disciplinary action. Because of this there is little if any collaboration with other creatives, and very little action made on new ideas unless the ideas start from within corporate communications. The creative team does very little to plan ahead and is almost always throwing things together days before a big holiday or event instead of well-planned and prepared campaigns. Most work is reactionary in nature which is a contributing factor to the copying of creative ideas from other airlines to meet a tight deadline.