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
1.0
Aug 30, 2017

Vicious, Vile and Soul crushing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Montreal is a pretty city

Cons

-Projects have very low budgets, bad stories and no future. -3QU films have no real distributor and none of your work can be shown on your reel. -Quebec has the highest taxes in North America. -Quebecois can be combative and not welcoming to outsiders. -Production is delusional and have unrealistic expectations. Extremely micromanaging and overbearing. -Lots of undermining, plotting, scheming and finger pointing. -Extremely clicky. -VFX side small. Mainly comp and wire removal work. Little to no creature work. -Sergio Pablo's "Klaus" is on every piece of Cinesite Animation promo, yet it's not even being done in Montreal or London. Being done by Sergio's company in Spain. -Best described as a twisted cult.

1.0
Aug 26, 2017

worst place I have ever worked!

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

location in Old Montreal, nice building! Decent pipeline

Cons

Terrible organization! I used to work in the London office and it was much better. The talent in Montreal is green at best. Mistakes are made everywhere. There is no follow through. They are not pro active and spend their time in meetings rather than getting what needs to get done in a timely manner. I think this comes from a lack of knowledge and scared of making the wrong decision. I don't know how they get anything done and is the most OT I have ever done. I don't know how they will get their current show out. They have trouble hiring people and I guess for good reason! Their reputation is not good! The shows are not good either! Technology is lacking! Not even a decent wrap deformer exists here. They have to use Maya's. If you come here you might find you are the only person in your department on a low wage.

1.0
Jul 8, 2017

It pays off to be a jerk

Recommend
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Pros

The hard working people are amazing, down to earth folks you cannot wait to see them next day. Sadly, these are the ones the studio bullies push around.

Cons

The bullies, or in better terms: LeJerks. This group is formed by passive-aggressive supervisors, producers and HR folks. Each one of them live in their own bubble, don't interact with anybody unless they need to make a mark on a check box so they can get a tap on the back from upper management (whoever they are. Seriously, I never met any of these guys), and do all those things they tell you in school not to do if you want to keep working in this industry, yet they made it to where they are (ironic huh!). Sometimes I think people get infested by the comptent and condescending tone of the quebecois

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