Industrial Light & Magic Reviews
Updated Jun 20, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "This text field required me to write at least five words so I am writing this sentence because the only thing I really want to put here is Good Benefits." (in 10 reviews)
- "I would highly recommend looking elsewhere for work, VFX is a dead end industry that is failing due to poor management and outsourcing." (in 13 reviews)
- "managers will get promoted for working people into the ground, and a new crop of clueless people will be be charged with making sure the contract employees make no contact with the sun for 6 months." (in 5 reviews)
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Like minded people if you are a VFX nerd. Good benefits. Good efforts at promoting equality and diversity. Living wage or better.
Cons
Big company, increased globalization causes "key" roles to become less distinct.
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
you get to work with very talented people and learn a lot
Cons
the pay makes SF hardly livable
- Former Employee★★★★★
uncomfortable work environment for people of color with production team.
RecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
get to work on great films
Cons
low pay for san Francisco Lack of diversity besides Asian and White. Though they preach diversity, inside the company the diversity is severely lacking. Most employees of color are at the bottom position and most end up leaving or getting fired within a year. Very unwelcoming environment. Very demeaning and "shut up and work" type environment. No opportunity to move up.
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
People are great, you can learn a lot from the best. If lucky, you can work on a blockbuster movie and have a life long story to tell.
Cons
-Sad to say it is a stepping stone but as we all know it takes dedication to keep up with this life work balance. Which wears you down when you do it for many years. -In between shows you are likely to have a unpaid leave since there are not as many projects coming in as it use to. (San Francisco) -Office is under constant change and shrink a lot. Most of the legends left the office already so there is a small team left. ( San Francisco) -The compensation is not competitive with SF salaries.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great projects, teams and artists.
Cons
Growth bottlenecks and low salaries for the industry.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Great artistic community and friendly co-workers environment, used to be a great place to learn.
Cons
The management is doing a terrible job, the San Francisco office is almost entirely gone.
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
You'll learn a ton from top-tier creative and technology folks. There is really no other place you can learn and develop your craft.
Cons
The hours can at times get rough. It's project-based, but that is consistent with other film shops.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great place to work and smart people
Cons
Very long hours, lots of overtime.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Most Coworkers are great and willing to help or share info
Cons
Don’t know what management does to help artists
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
They're still great. Amazing people, good pay, interesting industry
Cons
You actually have to put in the work.
Industrial Light & Magic Reviews FAQs
Industrial Light & Magic has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 244 reviews left anonymously by employees. 83% of employees would recommend working at Industrial Light & Magic to a friend and 57% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 9% over the last 12 months.
83% of Industrial Light & Magic employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Industrial Light & Magic 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Industrial Light & Magic to be benefits, workplace, coworkers and the cons to be culture, career development, management.
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