Amazing place to work, hard place to grow - Animator Epipheo Employee Review

Refreshing to work for a company that actually lives up to the values they preach day in and day out.

No cons come to mind.

The people are definitely the best part of the company. Lots of caring individuals and great personalities. Leadership works to get everyone together once a year in person which was always a highlight.

Lots of conservative and faith-based work if that isn't your cup of tea. Incredibly high stress work environment with no room for career growth. Production workflow is geared towards freelancers, so in house people have to work with tight timelines and processes that aren't supportive of in house employees. The production and creative teams are treated like two different business units, with goals that feel at odds to one another — this led to some tense interactions across several projects (in general there's little opportunity for meaningful collaboration). Expect to work more than 8 hours a day and weekends if you're in production, and be able to navigate difficult conversations with the creative team as this puts their projects over budget. Though counterintuitive, you'll need to stick up for yourself when working the necessary overtime to get your projects over the finish line. No room for career growth — senior seems to be about as high as you can get with lots of long tenured employees staying in the same role for years. Main benefit leadership tries to sell is that it's employee-owned and employees receive shares based on tenure, which due to lack of career growth feels like a moot benefit in general. Payout structure is also terrible unless you retire there.