Framestore Reviews

Pros

Great co workers Overtime Pay Snacks Good Location Valet Parking for Staff

Cons

Production is Mismanaged Studio Too Small - but they're working on it Impossible to get fair pay Impossible to Move Up, they only hire Producers, not promote them. Pipeline is tough to work with, very inflexible, if we have a good idea that will help everything, pipeline declines requests often claiming its impossible, despite having seen it at other studios.

Advice to Management

-Invest in good employees. -When I quit, the manager told me "hope you can keep up at your next job" and "it would be unfair to other coordinators to give you a raise or promote you. " -When I started, it was about 8 months before I even met the manager in person, and that goes for a couple other coordinators. They had the same experience. -Actually do the performance reviews. I asked for and waiting for my review for months. Asked HR to schedule many times, and no dice. I finally requested my peer review surveys, to read over and see if I could improve on anything, they were all glowing reviews. Looks like Management doesn't like to do reviews, because that means they'd have to pay you more or promote you. Why bother making your employees feel good or motivated to stay and do a good job. -Framestore's production department is led by someone who would rather scare lower level employs into staying in bad paying positions, rather than lift them up and encourage them to succeed in their company. It's very sad that the production department lead is run by a woman who has the opportunity to build other career women up, and she chooses to be an enemy instead of a mentor. -Manager also didn't tell anyone that I put in my notice. So the producers who planned to have me on their projects were blind sided when my last day came.

Pros

Great team and collegues who became good friends.

Cons

Over worked and under payed. Framestore lost what they were about and the culture they spent years building up. Employees are juFramestore has lost its soul. It’s just a big corporate entity where people are just numbers. The company doesn't care about retaining its employees. The tech teams are very under paid and overworked, in terms of tech the team can go anywhere (not just VFX) and Framestore need to be more competitive in terms of salary, workload and training. All though people say there is training, in reality you will be so over worked you will not have time to do training. There seems to be no money in Framestore anymore and if there is it doesn’t filter down to the people doing the work. When Framestore moved to Chancery Lane is when it began it's decline. It's sad to see the company go this way but now it's just another vfx company which has been bought out.

Advice to Management

Pay more attention to your employees issues.