Everyone around me felt stressed, overworked and tired. Employment benefits are practically non-existent. There's a 2-tier system for employees: if you're considered senior management, you're salaried, otherwise you have to justify every single minute worked on a time sheet every week. Management expects you to be fine if your workload becomes 3x what you're used to. Zoo will host meetings with senior management where you'll be told: "Don't worry, help is on the way, we are hiring. We want you to work to live, not live to work". But this is a lie and there is no help coming. They will have periodic satisfaction surveys about the company and the work that you do, but either the employees are too scared to give honest answers, or Zoo lies about the levels of employee satisfaction. Nothing ever came out of these and they are just a town hall conversation topic on how great the company is. In this company, real issues are rarely addressed, and employees are expected to work around the problem. I experienced a lack of team spirit, possibly due to how busy everyone was. The same goes for diversity and inclusion: nonexistent (a senior manager would refuse to say my name and call me "that person"). Zoo is all about show & tell, but no real substance on the issues that would improve employees' lives. No career progression at this company, this is just a gig job that pays the bills. Unfortunately, the reality of the post-production industry doesn't allow for much more: company prioritizes their profits over their employees' well-being. Low salaries (if you negotiate your salary, your manager might throw that randomly at you during a conversation on how you're making more than your co-workers); no work/life balance. Zoo's IT department is horrible and provides zero support to employees (I received 3 non-working laptop replacements and I had to use my personal device to do my job).
