Floyd County Productions Reviews

Leadership: Your department lead will make or break your experience. You're dealing with people who have a variety of personality traits and styles of interacting with subordinates. Some are respectful, kind, and a pleasure to be around, others are cold, rude, and a source of constant anxiety. Some make sure that every person on their team has an equal opportunity to learn new practices, while others play favorites, and make you jump through hoops to find out what information they told others simply. Some leads are mindful of discriminatory practices, some could use some help in that area. Career Advancement: Let's revisit discriminatory practices and how some people could use some help in that area... yeah, those people have a lot of power when it comes to your advancement. Pay: When I started, I was promised quarterly reviews, several opportunities for pay raises, etc. I was with the company for many years, saw many wages of employees new and old, and getting decent pay is not likely to happen unless you become a lead (and I already addressed your chances in Career Advancement above). All Lives Matter: Let's just talk about the elephant in the room, and that's that we work on offensive shows. Race, gender, sexuality, age, body type, etc - nothing's off the table. Most of the people I worked with are progressive, and try to treat everyone with respect, but we could all use some help with how to not alienate people around us. There have been many days when I had to walk out of the office because the conversation around me (by my superior or peers) made me want to put in my 2 weeks notice. Community Building: Again, your department lead will make or break your experience. Some leads encourage team members to help each other and get along, others create unhealthy competitiveness and will encourage isolation (there's no reason people on a team of less than 20 don't know each other's names after a year). Longevity: I started out excited about my career with the company, but by the second year, knew that my time would be short. There are so many other companies that will genuinely encourage you to be a better artist and person (not just for the company's sake, but because they care about you). Only those in the "in crowd" of the leaders are celebrated, and it's not healthy to go years feeling undervalued or unappreciated.

Oh boy. Okay. I had qualms at this studio for a long time but was scared I'd get singled out in these reviews and blacklisted (they love to threaten you with that!). But after the mass layoffs, I'm hoping to blend in with the crowd. Working at Floyd was like playing a game, but I didn't know the rules. And then they'd change the rules anyways, so what was the point. Getting a raise or moving up in your department was impossible. I didn't smoke and I'm not a dude (or play up my bro side like some of the women directors had to do - no judgement), so my chances of any movement were slim. It's a boys club, and I know the CEO told a woman to f off for saying it to his face, but it's true. I hit that glass ceiling hard and I hit it many times. I was also sexually harrassed by upper management more than once, but was too afraid to say anything. Others after me reported stuff, and only once that I know of was it taken seriously. Other times people were told to keep it quiet so the company wouldn't look bad. This place also played favorites, to an extreme, but they would gas light you when you pointed it out. People who were friends with management outside of work would get positions they weren't always suited for, often going above people who had a lot more experience. I had to upmanage many times, while getting paid less. Oh, speaking of pay... I've already revealed I identify as female, and more than once I found my male counterparts (same position, education, similar work experience) were paid more than me. I was not bad at negotiating and I was not shy to ask for a raise when I felt one was deserved (years of service, hitting deadlines, good reviews from managers, etc.). Overall, I felt very worthless at this company. I did my job, I stayed late, I took all notes in stride, and in earlier years I worked months with no break/weekends/days off. I was constantly striving to be a better artist. But it felt like none of it mattered, because I wasn't an old buddy of an art director. This place is toxic and right before the lockdown, it was feeling dangerous to work there with the incidents happening with the CEO.