Management and pay is laughable, but Co-Workers are all great - Content Curator Movieclips Employee Review

1.0
24 Mar 2013
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Pros

Office is located in a very hip area and the people who work on the content team are all amazing. Movie Clips (now known as Zefr) has done a great job of creating an environment where people with similar interests can interact and possibly even collaborate. Most people who work here are fresh out of college, and the company does provide a pretty cool aesthetic.

Cons

For an office that is located in one of the hippest areas in the U.S., the pay is quite insulting. At 10 dollars an hour, employees find themselves struggling to choose between food or gas, and the upper management (who all get paid well) don't seem to care. (There are also no benefits and healthcare provided for the content team, who make up about 90% of the company) Promotions and mobility within the company are also a huge issue. You will only be promoted if you are friends with someone else at the company, or simply if the upper management likes you. Promotions are most definitely not skill or performance based. You'll find employees leaving left and right, which explains why they're always hiring. Employees are all highly educated and skilled, yet they're treated like expendable parts in an assembly line. No wonder the turn over rate is horrible. The fun and loving image they try to portray is all fake.

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5.0
5 Nov 2012
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Pros

This place is a seriously hardcore Python shop, almost everything is built in Python, except the node.js stack that is used to handle our socket connection heavy claim system. It's a good place to learn Python technology stacks on PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB from some of the best Python hackers in LA, engineers are empowered with responsibility and ownership of their own projects and schedules, but with oversight from product management to allocate resources and manage feature road map. When I was interviewing, they claimed that they are the most advanced Youtube technology partner team in the world, capable of moving millions of Youtube views on a daily basis and getting our viewers to keep on coming back to us. It's not until after I have joined I realized how true that was, they have way more internal tools than they let the outside world know about interfacing with Youtube API, most of them proprietary and confidential to drive views, and optimize for ads/revenue, etc. Definitely looks like a startup that is going up and to the right fast. I feel lucky to be one of the early engineers to join the team.

Cons

They use SOI here which is not the best health care benefit provider... and so health insurance is a bit more expensive, but they pay me well enough that this is not an issue.

3.0
22 Oct 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the most amazing people work here. Especially if you're young and moving out to LA this is a great place to meet some cool people. There's also a lot of fun and exciting stuff going on at MovieClips. There's a basketball hoop, a snow cone and popcorn machine, random parties when the company achieves a big goal, and field trips to Comicon or the latest blockbuster that's out in theaters.

Cons

The pay is awful, especially for LA you can hardly afford to squeeze by. When you are promoted out of Content team (where most people start out) you have twice the responsibility and often still no raise. When you do get a raise you make $12.50 instead of $10.00 an hour at a job you could easily be making $40,000 a year for at a different company. It's no wonder the turnover rate is terrible. Every week one to two people leave the company.

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