Cinesite reviews

3.9

85% would recommend to a friend

(180 total reviews)

Antony Hunt

83% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Cinesite has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 180 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cinesite employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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180 reviews
3.0
Feb 29, 2020

Upper management departures

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Helping artists in a creative environment

Cons

Much management churn and overall instability among management. Large egos with certain senior managers.

4.0
Feb 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Very nice coworkers -Good-ish crunch management -Dinner limit is higher than in other studios -Pay is decent, contracts are long-ish (again, compared to other large London studios) -They seem to be busy

Cons

-Current office is a basement -No overtime pay (as in most places)

2.0
Feb 5, 2020

Watch out this company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* You can work on some fun projects and can have good portfolio from projects. * They learn from previous projects and want to bring more existing Feature Animation projects. * Lots of international talents all around the world, such as France, Spain, Mexico, US, Japan and England etc.. * Mixture of good talents and juniors. * You can learn from good talented artists. * As their Animation is sort of newish, they have worked with seniors and leads who didn't know what they were doing. They had to wipe off some bad seniors and leads. * Free coffee, drinks and snacks

Cons

* Salary is low. Even lower than some TV animation studios. I assume that they are saving money to invest on their IPs and expanding. However, they don't value artists. I get 1 week extension for another contract. They can use talents like toilet papers. So don't be emotionally attached otherwise you will hurt yourself. * They have a creative director/producer from LA who acts super positive and energetic in front of the crew but talked behind back instead of being honest and sincere with people. No one wants to work with him and I've seen people who worked under him and artists left because of him. I don't understand why they still haven't fired him although he made toxic environment. I guess he has connection in the industry? But why he moved to Montreal then? Maybe bad rep in LA? In tech, I've seen they do performance review and if they find someone in bad rep, they let them go immediately and keep everyone in safe and healthy environment. They should apply this in Animation industry as well. * There is no benefit, which I think it was super weird, especially this size of the company. * Montreal is cost of living is lower than other Canadian cities such as Toronto and Vancouver so they use this as excuse to pay their employee as low as possible. *

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