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Motion Picture Solutions

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Horrible - Administrator Motion Picture Solutions Employee Review

1.0
6 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

There are some good people here.

Cons

MPS' toxic work environment makes Chernobyl look like Disneyland. A culture where the cabal of Senior Management are too preoccupied in backslapping one another and maintaining the status quo to even recognise there are problems. And boy there are. The staff are undervalued, overworked and underpaid, the holy trifecta of an awful company, there are those that go over and beyond, but instead of rewarding and even trying to put measures in place to assist these people, MPS just pile on more and more. There is a deep set problem at MPS with staff being disgruntled, burnt out and mental states on the wane, but MPS won't recognise the rot, but we all know what happens eventually when things rot. Also, nothing works, like literally every few moments one of their systems packs it in and instead of investing money to fix it, MPS just puts a band aid on it, actually not a band aid, but a piece of tissue and hope for the best. The company is also adverse to change. They do one thing and although that has some upsides, the fact remains, they do one thing! Their competitors are light years ahead of them in every single aspect and MPS are lagging behind. The Senior Management Team, those guys again, are just so short-sighted. Like mentioned before all they care about is retaining their status quo, which in turn produces a "them vs us" mentality rippling through the company. This is no way to work. You are meant to like the people (or to a minimum respect) you are working with/for, but nope, not at MPS, everyone seems to dislike and distrust everybody. That is down to the Senior Managers for cultivating and growing this habitat. I have honestly never worked in a company so horrible, so misguided, so unaware of the damage they have caused to their suffering staff, so blinded with their own self-importance, so belittling, so incestuous to change, so bafflingly bad, so ignorant to the world around them, so oblivious and so toxic.

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3.0
12 May 2026
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Pros

HR team was approachable and generally supportive Some good perks: flexible WFH, access to industry events, opportunities to socialise with colleagues and to develop industry knowledge. Colleagues were talented, dedicated people working hard in genuinely difficult conditions.

Cons

The nature of the role is high-pressure: you're managing large client accounts with immovable deadlines, which creates a sustained level of stress that the work culture did little to counterbalance. While teamwork was regularly encouraged in name, the nature of the role itself left little room for it: individual client deadlines rarely aligned, making collaboration difficult in practice. Beyond that, systemic changes were often resisted by senior team members and management. Long-tenured employees, understandably set in their workflows, were rarely expected to adapt, which made onboarding and integration difficult for newer staff. Questions were not always welcome, even for things that weren't clearly documented or communicated, which made it hard to grow with confidence in the role. Several members of management and line management have personal relationships with one another. During my time, there was little acknowledgement of how this affected team dynamics, and in practice, the impact was tangible. Feedback to management was not well-received, which eroded trust. Line managers appeared to be under considerable pressure, and while I have sympathy for their position, that pressure often filtered down to employees rather than being directed upward. Frequent structural changes implemented without transparency, consultation, or explanation added to a general atmosphere of instability and mistrust. The opportunities for career growth within the team or company were also very limited.

4.0
2 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Team was fantastic and helpful Salary was good/competitive Opportunity to grow

Cons

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