Bafflingly unpleasant work experience - Anonymous employee Velir Studios Employee Review

1.0
May 1, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are a few diamonds in the rough, in terms of coworkers, but you have to sort through a cold and uncaring culture to find them. Depending on your manager, you can wrangle some degree of flexibility, but that did not seem to be everyone's experience.

Cons

Where to begin? If you have been working at Velir for longer than 5 years, you may not resonate with much of this. That's because folx who have tenure at velir are treated wildly differently than newer staff. And the tenured staff treat the new people differently too. If you work there long enough, you'll start to feel like you're in high school with all the cliquiness. Leadership does not care about how you're doing. They only care if you match their 100% billable target. 100%!! You read that right. Echoing a few of these other reviews, if you make one or two mistakes, you'll be met with "agency life is not for everyone" instead of mentorship or support on how to meet your goals. The recent merger with brooklyn data co was a disaster, and velir were so rude and uncooperative with us when we joined. I've never worked somewhere with a less caring and supportive culture. RUN - don't walk - away from any possible opportunities here!

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5.0
Apr 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Velir has a strong supportive work culture. We are finding our voice in the echo system and committed to delivering exceptional work to Clients. This job is not one you just clock out and not think about, it’s the one you wake ,up excited to tackle the next adventure and see what you can attribute to the team! The support we all have for one another is amazing and the way we all roll our sleeves up together is what I have been looking for in a company for a long time.

Cons

Our calendars definitely have quite a bit of meetings daily but we are working as a team to find ways to minimize these and allocate ways to support one another.

4.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great team and management, remote environment where they make an effort to communicate well

Cons

No opportunities to grow especially as AI has increased. No promotions or raises regardless of great output

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