Guru Studio Reviews

When I first joined, I thought I had landed somewhere creative, the kind of place where talented people could actually build great work together, but that picture started falling apart the longer I stayed and the more I saw what was happening behind closed doors. Priorities change all the time, work that was already finished kept coming back with more changes. Management cared more about control than people and office politics mattered way too much. Extra work kept getting dumped on the same people, and some days the workload got so insane you stopped feeling like an artist and started feeling like a slave just trying to survive. Most of the good people did not leave because they lacked passion, they left because passion can only survive so long in a place built on pressure. You stop thinking about your craft and start thinking about survival. Walking away did more for my creativity than staying ever could.

Current upper management and the CEO care more about giving their friends jobs than actually producing a good product. Many good reliable artist got laid off for “budget” reasons, but somehow there’s always money for the friends of the higher ups. Even when said friend is known in the industry for being difficult to work with and toxic in the work place. When they don’t really need a person on a production anymore but they’re a buddy to the higher ups, they’ll make up a new role/title for them. Meanwhile the artists are working on a skeleton crew. Watched a more senior manager have no respect for the actual supervisors working in the floor, will lie to the supervisors’ faces, throw other people under the bus, and not listen to the actual artists. Many of the good artist there would have jumped shipped long ago to get away from a string of horrible management and unreasonable work expectations if other work was readily available. Take the job if you need the money, but don’t expect a good work environment.