Pros
- Good for juniors and people who just start their career in CGI - No stress, no push, never felt overwhelmed - If you manage to find yourself in their production pipeline, you can get promoted very fast. People after 2 years in MPC can become leads, this usually does not happen in other companies - 50% of the pipeline is working - 1.5x payed overtime In general I would recommend it for juniors. I think its a great opportunity for them. You can learn a lot. People are super friendly, always happy to help you. You always have much time to finish your stuff. The deadline is not an issue, because it will always be late. The other group I would recommend is people who are in the industry long enough, but never got promoted and want to go and climb this ladder. This will not be easy, but much easier in MPC then any other big company. I think that after 2 years in MPC (and if you had few years of experience before that), they will ask you to become lead. Ive seen it. Thats great.
Cons
- Bad for mid/senior level. - Not artist friendly - Not very ambitious - 50% of the pipeline is not working - Overtime there is the solution to pipeline problems - Maya focused. Always problems with Houdini licences - Very low pay Mid artists may be very disappointed, especially if you are ambitious. If you dont want to jump into their maya based tools, you will have a bad time :) Usually 3h in a day Im without Houdini licence, doing nothing. So you have to stay OT to finish your job. Very crappy houdini "setups". People tend to just drop a shelf tool, promoting attribs calling that a "tool", never cleaning up the useless stuff. FX pipeline is very buggy, you will do most of your sims locally. Releasing to lighting sometimes takes 25% of your time. So if you like to work in a clean and organized manner, you will have a great problem working there. There is a different mindset there, especially within juniors who started in MPC. They dont know that other compenies dont work like MPC. And even when you ask people noone is a junior. Everyone is already a mid. And every mid is a senior. Im talking about their vision on who they are. So when an MPC person leaves the company, he/she will have a very bad time when he/she hits the reality.