Digital Domain Reviews

Pros

good benefits, good facilities and compensation

Cons

Too may hours at work

Pros

* The job is challenging and quite satisfying when a goal is reached.
* Good pay and typical perks in correlation to industry standards.
* You will work with some absolute brilliant minds.
* Nice social events take place occasionally.
* Daily catering when things get hectic.

Cons

* Profits are still difficult to turn, causing management cut corners in many areas.
* Infrastructure is less than stellar, causing a band-aid approach to many problems.

Pros

Talent in every department is amazing. Great place to grow your abilities from experienced to outstanding. Robust infrastructure and equipment.
Nuke software was developed here and the artists know how to use it to the extreme!

Cons

Communication is limited between upper management and employees. Long hours. Commute to west side is tough. Parking is limited. Management of projects is lacking at times.

Pros

Digital Domain has some of the smartest people working for them. There are passionate, dedicated, even brilliant people working in several departments, and working on a few shows in a row will put you in to contact with many of them. The shows are A-list blockbuster Hollywood films.

The company provides bagels on Wednesday and doughnuts on Friday, and each show typically has a small craft services outpost. They cater for most people working 10+ hours, and the catered food is excellent and diverse.

Expectations are high regarding quality of work (which is a good thing), and that is to be expected at such a prestigious company. If you're willing to try hard, you will learn a lot working at DD.

Cons

The most frustrating downside of DD is the absolute last-minute updates regarding one's contract. Employees are given no notice as to whether their contracts will be extended until the last minute (once, someone received an email indicating an extension after she was supposed to have left on her last day). The extensions, when given, are typically very short, even during crunch time. For example, I was on a show that everyone knew would go until March, and yet all of our contracts ended in January, and they didn't start giving extensions (until February) until right before the end. And don't expect to get any insight from management, should you even ask about the possibility of extension. They prefer to be secretive, rather than just saying "Probably not" or "Probably so".

The management is bizarrely secretive about other things; anything regarding the company's future is kept completely secret, even when it's something mundane and non-confidential. They even keep up a façade of ignorance when all the employees already know the secret.

The hours can be absolutely insane, but that's par for the course in VFX. The facilities are far from the best in the industry; the building is well-worn, and there's little for entertaining employees in non-work times.

Advice to Senior Management

Open up to your employees. Be more frank about how long contracts are likely to last; they would rather you tell them and end up being a bit wrong, than to be constantly kept on the edge. It will make people want to come back to DD, because DD is a great place with really smart people.

Pros

it is good for your resume if you're a young enthusiastic and somewhat blind to your exploitation by this company

Cons

overtime all the time, changes to schedules and the things you're working on. no information sharing, bad attitude by supervisors, layoffs, no health insurance provided for contractors.

Advice to Senior Management

please try to care of all the people

Pros

The name is well known in the film industry. A few people are very nice and helpful.

Cons

Management tells people outright lies. After the initial 90 days probation most trainees are let go. Severance pay is not enough considering several people moved from across the country to work here (Florida.) This is not a good town to get stuck in. Placement doesn't make sense considering trainee's backgrounds. They seem to be fostering an atmosphere of distrust and elitism.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at people's backgrounds and place them where they will work out best. Be honest about everything relevant to the job.

Pros

Top 3 Visual Effect Studio in the world. Pretty cool film project. Location is great 4 blocks from Venice beach, lots of restaurante and coffee shop. Flexible working hour in some degree.

Cons

Working environment is not great. Facilities are so and so. Limited parking lot. Lack of promtion oportunity. Relatively short term contract for the many contractors.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve working environment.

Pros

full of challenges and working for all A list movies. Open to access the knowledge in the studio. colleagues are smart and with specialties.

Cons

Too many erragant ppls very hard to work with. some things really confusing, nobody will explain to you. like the timecard is worst system. I mean it's good, but timecard trainning is nightmare, never told you anything you need to know. a lot of little things nobody told you how to do, but once you do it not in the properly way, some jackass will jump out and send you a really rude email and pissed you off.

Advice to Senior Management

could make environment more friendly, give employee more space, like google they have 1 day each week belong to employee, they can make more creative things in that time.