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Updated Jun 12, 2022
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- "Bottomline: you end up working too much for very little salary in a place that is a health risk." (in 8 reviews)
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- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Hard work is highly recognized, provides strong opportunity for growth and development, has entertaining projects, multiple studio locations in British Columbia Canada, VERY strong work benefits package, high-standard leadership, and exciting social events to partake in.
Cons
Has (only very lately) fallen out of their way to provide proper training to new employees.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
How they find the system out
Cons
How they are in. The works
Thank you for the review!
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
good people, impressive company culture and etc
Cons
I didn't see any bad things at Bardel
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Community and Communications Manager
Our company culture is very important to us and we are always working to diversify! Thanks for the review!
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Excellent People to work with, innovative, lots of opportunities, fun and creative atmosphere.
Cons
No real cons from me.
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
-Studio has a fairly consistent stream of incoming projects to potentially join, and some are really desirable -Some great people; super hard-working, talented, and friendly -Studio's putting in effort to create positive company culture/community through events and such -My first project was a good learning experience; the second was quite tough, but I learned a lot through it -Some opportunities to potentially advance through leadership tracks if you'd fit those types of roles
Cons
Summary: There's a word a lot of Bardel employees associate with the studio but are scared to say out loud...sweatshop. -The culture the company's trying hard to create and project contrasts the reality, which is that employees are too overworked to take part in any of the fun community-building stuff. I would've loved to partake in it, but I was too busy putting in tons of unpaid overtime to meet unreasonable expectations for a tiny paycheck. -Experiences can vary REALLY wildly depending on your project/team. On my first project, expectations and deadlines were reasonable, I almost never worked overtime, and I made a small but livable wage. Second project we were all burning out fast trying to hit insane standards and making barely a livable wage in such an expensive city. Some of my friends were on projects so easy that they were bored out of their minds; others worked every single weekend for no extra pay and it was entirely expected of them to do so. -Unpaid overtime was presented as our own issue that we had the power to control; if we didn't want to work nights and weekends, we just had to magically work faster and better and be more organized, even if we were already doing those things to the best of our abilities. As if it had nothing to do with the studio leadership and the client. -Same thing as above applied to a quota-based paycheck; management acknowledged that the "base pay" that we were guaranteed every week for hitting quota was not a professional salary, and that it was up to us to go above quota enough to make a decent amount of money. That's okay when going above quota is actually doable, but for some projects, it's just not. Especially since footage-based pay and deadlines didn't adjust to different difficulty levels of scenes. -Studio is not set up to be conducive to socialization at all. The old Beatty Street location was, since it wasn't too huge and had a big common area for lunch and special events, but the way West 3rd is set up, it's hard to naturally have interactions with your coworkers. -You may have to work completely in the dark. Beatty was in a basement, and the first floor of West 3rd is like a big warehouse space with only windows in one little section. No natural light, plus they keep it dark for the 3D lighting teams, which should just have their own dark space to work in. -Low-key sexism which is kind of inescapable in this industry, but there was a certain degree of bro-y culture which definitely favored male employees and gave them more opportunities to rise through the ranks.
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Thank you so much for this review! Honestly! It is so helpful to know what your experience has been and to see the areas that are opportunities for us to grow as a studio. We hear you. We do care. And we truly value your feedback. We will do all that we can to respond to these concerns.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
good projects and great people
Cons
clear direction from top is lacking
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Bardel has great shows - there's no other way to put it. They work with some of the best brands in the industry, and offer artists creatively challenging opportunities to grow in their careers and learn from experienced industry professionals. Alongside the great shows, Bardel has great people! The company culture is friendly, engaging, and fun. People make jokes in the hallways, walk for coffee together, carve pumpkins together, trouble shoot technical problems together, eat cereal together. It is a very collaborative environment where artists are encouraged to share their opinions and bring forward solutions. The Senior Management team is also a good group of people who genuinely care about the studio. If you want to be challenged in your career and work on great shows with great people, Bardel is the place for you.
Cons
Every company has room to improve. Bardel could implement a few structural improvements that would benefit the studio as a whole, but as far as animation studios go, it's a good place to work!
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great family friendly work environment and the opportunity to work on some of the best animated tv series in the world
Cons
There can be long work hours if you are need more time that others to be productive
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Fast but manageable pace, fun crew, good coworkers, good shows to work on
Cons
Pay isn't that great - probably due to the double-whammy of working in BC and working in TV.
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
The people are genuinely friendly, it can offer a good opportunity for someone to learn depending where they are in their career and the projects produced are relatively high quality. It's a small studio feel but at a large scale, which can be nice.
Cons
The upper management is a mess, there's absolutely no unified vision and the company is in a constant state of chaos, unprepared and last-minute decisions that end up hurting employee morale, client confidence and the studio's ability to consistently bring in work. The working conditions aren't great either given cramped spaces, inadequate furniture and mediocre wages. Not to mention the illegal practice of not paying overtime (which almost all studios have moved away from already).
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Bardel Entertainment has an overall rating of 4.2 out of 5, based on over 203 reviews left anonymously by employees. 86% of employees would recommend working at Bardel Entertainment to a friend and 63% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -4% over the last 12 months.
86% of Bardel Entertainment employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Bardel Entertainment 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.4 for culture and values and 4.2 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Bardel Entertainment to be benefits, career development, coworkers and the cons to be management, culture, compensation.
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