There is a rot at the core of Rooster Teeth, labor beware. - Anonymous employee Rooster Teeth Productions Employee Review

-You will be reminded at every all-hands that this company was started by a bunch of friends in a garage despite years of constant controversies and departures centered around those people. The leadership/decision-making level of the company is incredibly unprofessional and willfully inexperienced. That toxicity is pervasive and has enabled and protected some truly heinous people to take advantage of the workforce and fans. -Historically many in leadership are already friends with OR end up dating or getting married to people at the same level at the company. Those in the club are given decent pay, get to have creative input on their projects, and get the option to refuse requests. They allocate their resources exclusively to benefit those "In the club" and will reliably use their positions for self-enrichment at every opportunity. -Not being in the club is an exercise in a late-stage-capitalist corporate exploitation. I.e. You will never be paid fairly, you will be given additional responsibilities without title or compensation until you burn out and they drop you from the company. (This has happened over and over again.) -You will not have the ability to say no when management makes an insane request with an unreasonable deadline. Your expertise on how to do your job will not be recognized unless they want you to take on additional responsibility for free. - Leadership will leverage managers that desperately want to be a part of the in-club to exploit their teams to the point of burnout. -Diversity Equity, and Inclusion initiatives are underserved and feel more like a checkbox being ticked than actual progress being made. Labor that runs the DEI groups burn out quickly and tends to leave quickly. The responsibilities of the next DEI team seemingly include running smear campaigns against prior DEI leaders that have left the company. Structurally almost nothing changes and community outreach is on a budget. -Crunch is constantly verbally discouraged but structurally mandatory. Deadlines rarely move, and the complexity of tasks are not discussed with leads before a date is set. The last time I saw a deadline get pushed from labor's input, there was a natural disaster that disabled utilities city-wide for 3 days. Some people were caught in a freeze with no heat, drinkable water, or heat. Still, leadership demanded teams work over the weekend to "get caught up". It took a petition signed by dozens of people demanding relief for the company to listen to their workers. Afterward it was back to business as usual. -Under a corporate structure where inexperienced people have the final say, a lot of projects end up falling apart or fail to deliver. We had a financial analyst who was "counting wrong" for literal years. Despite the problems being obvious, the company blames labor and "pivots" into doing something else by either burning out the team, or finally firing them. (Oh sorry, I meant: "letting their contracts expire") -One of those pivots involved "moving the animation teams to contract" which in truth involved firing everyone on a salary and rehiring them as temporary contract labor. Thus freeing the company from having to pay severance for any of their long term animation staff right before the Pandemic got started. -After half a decade of bad bets that have resulted in losing years of structural knowledge and expertise, Rooster Teeth has put itself into a position where they can't afford to make things outside of podcast content while simultaneously running out of people not-in-the-club to blame. -Monty, a legendary animator with a history of overwork who died tragically during surgery, has become a martyr for the company. His name is invoked both to avoid criticism and to hype up every season of the show he started. Using your dead "friend" as a shield while simultaneously encouraging labor to overwork and make an extra buck is flatly: repulsive. -The General Manager at one point said "Any press is good press!"... go ahead and Google "Rooster Teeth controversy" and keep scrolling.