Institute for Creative Technologies Reviews

Pros

You get to work from scratch. You will be having meetings with Army people and get to gather the requirements from them.

Cons

Requirement specification document should be prepared before starting the development.

Pros

Excellent benefits, and if you're an academic, it's part of USC, so get that tenure! Free coffee, smart people, interesting work.

Cons

Lack of drive and initiative. Professional development is nonexistent for non-admin staff, so accountants get training, programmers have to beg for classes. Compensation isn't competitive. Management is aloof.

Advice to Management

Pull the wool off your eyes, we're being left behind.

Pros

A caveat: I only worked here as a contractor. That said, there are two things that make this work environment incredible. 1. These people are working at the cutting edge, developing technologies for graphics, interactivity and entertainment that are changing industries. So you'll be surrounded by people that prioritize discovering new things. It's an academic environment, but one focused on solving real technical problems...

Cons

Sometimes deadlines can be pretty soft, because pretty much every project at ICT is an attempt to do something that hasn't been done before. It's very hard to project a timeline under those circumstances, and that took some getting used to.

Advice to Management

Please work to preserve this incredible place. You've created something amazing here, and it changed the way I look at my own career.

Pros

Many interns here and really can have a good time

Cons

There're a lot food truck there and could really have a good time

Pros

great location, fun coworkers, meaningful work

Cons

some potentially long days, sometimes hard to define scope of what needs to get done on the day-to-day

Pros

Great place to get your hands dirty on technologies that are not in the market. Good pay for student researchers

Cons

Would have appreciated a structured program for the interns

Pros

Can learn more things about Natural Language Processing

Cons

nothing cons there. It's best place to work

Pros

I was a student worker, but still my teammates considered me part of their team. The project i was working on was more of a research project, so got to understand how a typical research project is handled. The people there are amazing, with lots of experience and I had a chance to learn a lot from them. The office is located in superb area of Playa Vista which was a plus for me.

Cons

This is not a major con, but coming from working in the industry, working on research projects sometime meant more of prototyping which meant a bit more slower but promising development of the projects.