Monolith Productions Reviews

Terrible Micromanagement. One of the senior folks is a complete bully and does not trust in the artist's abilities at all. As a result everything is strictly monitored like in a criminal jail cell. No artistic freedom at all. Lighting decisions are very poor as it ultimately comes down to poor art direction with regard to lighting. In short the lighting art never looked so bad in any game I have worked on. Extreme crunch, 6-9 months in a year is spent crunching. Contract employees get treated differently and badly. Once you are a project term employee you are salaried and not paid by the hour. Which means you won't get any overtime if you work extra hours, also under the project term position you will not be eligible for any company bonus as well. Stay clear of this place. I am an experienced lighter with years of experience but I have never worked in a worst atmosphere.

As a contractor most staff employees look at you like a disease. As a contractor you will not have sick days, the benefits offered are over priced and the only holidays you'll be paid for are Christmas and New Years day. Also the studio has some strange WB policy where they can't technically give you any free swag however they do "unofficially" through your third party recruiter which will be either "Yoh" or "Volt". That being said there's sadly an invisible line drawn between the staffers and the contractors. Most of the staffers have been with the studio from the beginning and unless they die you'll never step into a supervising role...even in death there's no certainty as they resurrect their dead and keep them on as staff. Those who have faithfully served in both life and death do so out of necessity and not always out of skill or experience.