Digital Juice Reviews

Pros

Creative outlet - always changing - never the same 2 days in a row

Cons

Inconsistency of messages - some hap-hazard decision making

Advice to Senior Management

Plan.

Pros

Very good place to work iff if you dont think about the salaries because you will get the minimum.

Cons

Worst management and they are not behaving like professionals.

Pros

The company hires great people and funds some very interesting and fun projects.

Cons

The company then fires all of those great people and defunds mature projects or even completed ones. There are many Cons with the biggest being that President Viv Beason has emotional swings that make godzilla look stable and CEO David Hebel has a paranoid martyr complex and thinks that he is a genius surrounded by idiots. Lots of yelling and throwing things. From the business end the company is run on a month by month basis with the potential for everything to change at the end of any particular month depending on how much money is left. For you professionals reading this and thinking about working here and figuring you can deal with periodic outbursts consider that no projects ever get a budget. I am not kidding. If they are bringing you on board to shoot a video project make sure you ask what the budget is. I am not saying they are stingy or will underfund your project. In reality they might throw a ton of money your way but without a budget it is impossible to plan for anything at all so you might be shooting on your project one day and doing a casting call for someone elses project the next. Your days are numbered when that happens. Did the company run out of money? Who knows because there was no budget.

Advice to Senior Management

there is no real management since the CEO doesn't let anyone make any decisions

Pros

really fun, great projects, fun coworkers, good gear, management will support your project... well... up to a point...

Cons

Support for your project will be dropped when the president and CEO lose interest. And they will. And when they do it won't be pretty. If you are lucky, they will ignore you for a few months and then fire you. Use this time to look for a new job. Don't worry, you don't have to do your old job because they will literally ignore you. Just sit at your desk and look for a new job for a few months. Be picky. Take your time.

If you are unlucky, they will explosively lose interest in your job and yell at you. repeatedly. here's a funny true sorry. We won an Emmy award for DJTV in 2008. You think the boss would be happy. He was not. He sent a long email yelling at us, whining about how everyone treated him badly and no one respected him. Really. We could not figure out what the heck the problem was except maybe his name was not on the trophy. He refused to go to the annual Christmas party, even though he traveled from India to the US for it. He was mad for days. At me. At us. I am not kidding. So he yells at you when you do your job so well you win awards. imagine what it's like when you still do your job well, but he doesn't care anymore.

Advice to Senior Management

hold your breath and collect your paycheck

Pros

great creative products, fun atmosphere when actually working on a project and the project is often one you can invent yourself

Cons

worst job ever. You will be warned by current employees during the interview stage and you will think it will be different for you but it won't.

many of the ratings here talk about getting praise or feedback on performance and you basically won't get any unless the boss is screaming mad already. he won't tell you what he wants so the best you can hope for is to guess. guess wrong and you get yelled at in the most childish demeaning way possible and called stupid. you might expect a professional apology for this unprofessional behavior but you wont. instead you will just stew angrily at your desk gradually cooling down over the weeks and months until it happens again. also paranoid boss claims he knows everything and cryptically hints that he has his ways and that theres no way for employees to get away with anything, yet the employees are not trying to get away with anything. everyone to a person loves the promise of their job and would love to work hard and accomplish stuff, but crazy boss will make you resentful in less than two months and you will hate him despite your work, which you are still proud of.

Advice to Senior Management

CEO should go to singapore and just make big decisions. President should just take a permanent vacation. I promise morale would go way way up, output would skyrocket, CEO and President can collect bigger salaries it would work for everyone.

Pros

very interesting work and very fun people to work with

Cons

of all the categories for rated there should really be a -100 for internal communication or maybe -infinity because there is none. this creates intense anxiety. actually i lied because there is some internal communication but you dread it more than the none communication because it is never good.

i think yes there is some chaos, but that can be dealt with and can be fun. and yes maybe some abuse, but if you don't take it personally you can do ok

Advice to Senior Management

daily communication about all projects even if there is no new information

Pros

I loved my work at Digital Juice. Considering how much fun it was, the pay was not bad. And I am very proud of the work I accomplished.

Cons

Only one big downside, which, I'll make a prediction about here. Since there is only one review up so far, I predict over and over again you will see former employees and current employees complain about chaos and abuse. Still, as the second person to post a review, I have to say that while chaos is common and kind of fun at times, the abuse will knock your socks off when it happens. Which is fortunately rare. But that's a bit like saying that an abusive husband is really a great guy even if he's a little unstable and he only rarely hits you. How many times does he have to hit you before you leave? Does it matter if it's only once every six months? No, I'm not saying anyone will actually physically hit you, although there will be moments when you think it might be coming, but there is no question that real verbal abuse occurs and I am not talking about a manager at Walmart berating a minimum wage 16 year old at his first slacker job, I'm talking about salaried professionals.

Advice to Senior Management

Good luck.

Pros

Great products, fun projects, talented coworkers.

Cons

Where to begin? Abusive, violent, no internal communication, periodic purges based on perceived loyalty and a constant sense of crisis and panic. New exciting projects are proposed, accepted and then abandoned when the boss loses interest in them. Company is run on a month by month basis and is at risk of not having enough revenue at the end of every month so there are no long term budgets. You are expected to read the boss' mind and if you can't, you will get snotty emails at best, yelled at as a norm and possibly have thing thrown at you during a meeting (but this is rare). Everyone I worked with has either been fired or left for lower paying jobs. Really. That bad.

Advice to Senior Management

Advice on how to keep their jobs? Suck up to the bosses. Advice on how to make things better? Get out. Get out now while you still can.