Deluxe Entertainment Reviews

Pros

Nice people, ok benefit package

Cons

Some people there should not be managers. Does not want to be bothered with anything and
does not train properly. Required to know everything and cannot get help if you need it. Will give you attitude if you need help with something.

Advice to Senior Management

Get managers who will listen and will help you instead of scold you. Needs managment who would be good mentors not someone who just sits and does nothing and who is lazy.

Pros

Casual, somewhat laid back atmosphere. Job duties are evenly distributed. Team managers sometimes listens to their department and work in conjunction to further workplace morale. Employees can attend movie screenings if the right request is pushed through.

Cons

Due to new management, cost of living increases (or raises) have been suspended indefinitely since 2008. No room for promotions, but lateral moves are available when someone leaves a certain position within the department. Disorganization with upper management. Additional work pushed on employees but without the incentives or personal acknowledgement. At times, forced to work holidays and/or weekend when staff is minimal.

Advice to Senior Management

Because the decrease of film printing distribution went to our competitor, Technicolor, Deluxe laid off over 60% of the work force last year, then realized that they needed to recoup new employees to cover the influx of business we have taken in for digital cinema. Not receiving a raise for the amount of additional amount of workload for over five years is unacceptable.

Pros

Majority of team members are very knowledgeable.
People take pride in what they do and keep their head up even when working against tough deadlines.
Technology implemented is very up to date and even bleeding edge at times.
Fast paced environment with exciting projects to work on.
Company arranged picnics and team building activities are great.
Upper Management tends to mingle with the employees at company picnics enabling easy access for employees at every level.
Pay is competitive.
None of the competitors work on better projects (technologically or otherwise)

Cons

Different departments seem to work in silos.
Manufacturing mindset is prevalent in every aspect of the company. (which can be a good thing in certain departments and fatal in others)
Lack of visibility in terms of positions open in other departments that an employee might be interested in.
Certain politically motivated individuals tend to sour the working environment for other employees and can end up making day to day work laborious and unproductive.
Certain positions make it easier to allow employees to act busy while not ultimately contributing to the success of the team and get away with it.
All activities can sometimes seem focused towards achieving yearly bonus rather than maintain a balance between employee satisfaction and other long term plans.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to provide an open form for employees to transfer to lateral positions in other departments. This will keep talent within the company rather than lose them to competitors/layoffs.

Pros

Close ties to the entertainment industry

Cons

Serves too few clients
High level of disharmony among teams

Advice to Senior Management

Need to make structural changes
Recognize competance against politics

Pros

A very open work culture, coupled with a communicative senior management, amazing colleagues and a fun work environment made this phase of my career something I will always look back fondly on. I was there for close to 8 months, and there wasn't a day I didn't enjoy going to work.

Cons

No job is without its share of grievances. The pay was lacking. Severely. Starting off, you earn about 20k less than the average national per capita income. That's saying something in a country like India. It takes a long time to improve. Another con is lack of similar work in India. Not many companies subtitle movies and television shows.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more, retain the wonderful talent you get. If you did that, you'd never have issues with having to train a new batch of people every few months.

Pros

Deluxe is one of the premier post-production companies in the industry. Each unit works autonomously so it can be a very good experience if you are working for a division that runs effectively.

Cons

There is a lot of duplication of efforts. Minimal communication between the different divisions. Focus is not on individual growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should balance focus on ROI and profitability with building teams, communication, career growth, mentorship, etc. Coordination among the different divisions would go a long way.

Pros

If you are desperate for a job.

Cons

You get worked to death, total boys club (if you are a woman you will get even more worked to death), this company is owned by MAFCO so everything is done for them. There is not respect or appreciation for hard work. Management lacks any form of communication, they are all afraid of top management. No one has any respect for them.

Advice to Senior Management

I think management can do a better job. They themselves have acknowledged that but do not want to make any effort to change.

Pros

Great pay and benefits. I was very satisfied.

Cons

Work can get repetitive, need to stay focused.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up, but trim middle management fat.

Pros

The people working there are friendly.

Cons

Not a lot of people, especially upper management is willing to pitch in and get their hands dirty when it's crunch time.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing.

Pros

If you want to work in the entertainment industry, this is a good starting point

Cons

The senior mgmt is very reactive and greedy. They do not see that we are losing money on large client accounts because we are giving away services.

Advice to Senior Management

Do a cost benefit analysis in CEA.