Pros
Experience in the live broadcast and video production fields.
Cons
This company severely underpaid its employees, while hiring inexperienced outside management that clashed with veteran employees. Multiple employees during my tenure left due to harsh working conditions and lack of comp adjustment.
When hired, I was told there would be “some travel.” I was gone for weeks and months at a time with no more than a few days notice sometimes one day notice, having to leave the office early to pack for a multi week trip. In my first year I was gone for 28 days, 70 days, and several multi week campaigns. I spent about 25-33% of my time on the road. There is no such thing as a personal life while working with this company.
The management style was crass and exploitative. The CFO is a con man who openly lied to employees and clients having his employees clear up misunderstandings that he had sold them prior to installation and setup. He vastly over sold the client on the product the company provided, leaving the operators and engineers in precarious positions, making it impossible to provide the product he had promised the client.
We constantly worked 12+ hour shifts to meet demands that management had promised while being vastly understaffed. Many times during my tenure I worked 20+ hour shifts, with no sleep climbing up and down ladders in dark arenas with insufficient tools to complete installations.
The system we used was not reliable, sometimes didn’t work at all and the blame would always fall on the San Francisco office that had anywhere from 1-5 people in it. Our team was so small and the work load assigned to us was insane. We took the blame for things out of our control because of the faulty system and slow communication flow from the other international offices.
The turnover at this company speaks for itself. It was a revolving door of employees where new employees were training newer employees on complicated replay systems that were constantly being updated and fixed for bugs by foreign developers.