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Newscape Studios reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)

49% positive business outlook

Newscape Studios has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Newscape Studios employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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30 reviews
1.0
Jan 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Before they showed their true colors I thought I was working in a decent company that cared about their employees. I was wrong.

Cons

Management "found" a two private group chats on someone's private discord. Downloaded the entire chats, and then fired the majority of people who had been a in the chats. No investigation was held, no chance was given to defend ourselves. They said we were fired us for one thing in the voice chat, then hours later received termination letters with completely false accusations/reasons on why we were fired. They used screenshots from the chat as proof, but where completely taken out of context, and in my case not even about the company. These chats had been going on for months. The majority of us were remote workers at the time, and were using the chats as a way to connect to our coworkers in a safe management free space. It was the closest way we could get to making friends in a completely isolated work space. They were not impacting our work at all. I got all my work finished on time and most times early. I had never been in trouble prior to this, and in fact the very week before was given a raise. 4 days later I was fired. The management here pretends to be your alley, until you "hurt their feelings". They handled the situation similar to a middle schooler. They looked into an employees private discord account, a place they have no right to be. Then acted on pure emotion and fired the majority of their animation staff with only a weekend of thought behind it. They say the care about their employees and yet they do this. Fire us for making friends, then make up reasons that fall under "gross misconduct" so we can't get unemployment. They say we betrayed their trust. But to me, as our employer, they betrayed ours.

2.0
Jan 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Working with lots of talented artists • Competitive pay for entry-level • Nice, expensive office

Cons

• Management views staff as disposable and will terminate with little to no warning • Poor communication overall. Management consistently struggled to provide proper feedback and critique for projects. Little to no training for new hires. Little to no education/ career growth for long-term staff. Very unreceptive to feedback • Consistently overworked staff due to mismanagement, inexperience with the animation pipeline, and unrealistic expectations. • Unpaid holidays, where you had to "earn" them by crunching beforehand • Requires all full-time staff to work on-site without providing relocation assistance

1.0
Jan 7, 2022

Too good to be true

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Talented artists - Consistent pay

Cons

- Disrespectful attitude towards employees - lack in communication - expected to work overtime but reprimanded for doing so - process for receiving PTO was unclear - lack of training for new employees - veteran artists under paid - expected employees to be available off the clock or on weekends - management threatened holiday breaks to be taken away - impossible for employees under certain titles to be promoted in any way - management inexperienced in the animation industry - required to move but not compensated to do so - a week turn around with expectation of flawless work - no credit to artists in or in comments of the videos

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