People good - Anonymous employee Pixel Zoo Employee Review

2.0
3 May 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Co-workers are lovely. Directors, producers and leads can be quite close with employees compared to other studios. Good job security as there is no lull in workload and they will often offer full-time after the initial contract. Very easy to move up from being a junior (though your pay will never increase). If you are having trouble breaking into the industry, this place will give almost everyone a chance. A great starting point. Since the culture isn't very good, many people find very strong and long-lasting work relationships.

Cons

Too much demand and pressure. Senior management has a client worship culture, and because there is no overcharge on client notes, there is a lot of massive labour demand during crunch that would not fly at other workplaces (e.g. asset or animation changes the day of delivery/airing). Weekend, PH work and overtime work is paid at 1.0x rate... isn't this illegal? Have never heard of a project being turned down due to lack of staff - but there is a serious lack of staff. If one person is hired for one biweekly project, they end up working on maybe 2-4 biweekly delivered projects on average (depending on their department), and even mid-level management is exhausted from project/client demands. When one project wraps, 3 more take its place. Quantity of output is prioritised over everything, to the point where there is no optimising workflow as all hands are needed on deck at all times. Production pipelines are quite legacy from the days when it was a smaller studio, project tracking is done using Google Sheets and remote work done over DropBox syncing. Employees are often very frustrated at moving target goals, communication can be very lacking between artists, between management and between both. There are no systems in place for clean handovers other than relying on people to DM one another. Upper management is not pleasant to deal with. Covid WFH policies non-existent, and you feel quite unsupported as an employee. They ask you to schedule all non-work appointments outside of work hours. Being on-site is demanded, but they do not give any compensation for working in-studio - all home equipment, relocation costs and transport is your own expenses. At one point in time, there were not enough in-studio tablets to go around for an extended period, so majority of artists were using their own.

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1.0
11 Aug 2025
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Pros

-Decent projects to work on

Cons

-Red flags from the beginning -Severally underpaid -You are basically tossed to the side if you don't keep up with their pace -You are ignored for days when you need answers -So much disrespect from the higher ups, and management -Toxic behavior and language in upper management -Guaranteed burn out

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3.0
4 Sept 2024
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Pros

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Cons

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