Pros
- Wonderfully talented and friendly art team. - Flexible working hours are very handy. - Great social events - The shows do look polished - Good place to start out of university
Cons
- The pay is abysmal, especially considering this studio is in Dublin, a city infamous for its sky high rent prices. When I joined I was told that pay was reviewed annually. This did not happen once. - Not much chance of advancing your career within the company - The production and management teams can be painfully uncoordinated and vague with little briefing or instruction. They can sometimes even be manipulative. - Can be expected to work late/ work weekends with no extra pay. - Creative liberty is very limited due to working for a large corporation which cares mainly for product sales. The cartoons you make are basically adverts for toys. Just know what you're getting into. - Training promises go unfulfilled - Work wears you down and makes you depressed so that at the end of the work day you have no fervour for working on personal art to be used for portfolio, so you can start feeling trapped.