Pixar Animation Studios Reviews

Pros

Lots of a fun. never gets boring and it’s amazing to see your animations come to life and as a person who loved animated movies as a kid it feel so much better to make them yourself. It’s almost like I never grew up I’m still making and watching animated movies except now I’m not using lego

Cons

In all the time I worked there I never once got bored or had an issue it was an amazing experience

Pros

Amazing people (goes a long way); great leadership; great work/life balance; quality films, actively working on D&I initiatives; beautiful campus

Cons

Low, low pay; very slow growth for production management, bottle neck at mid-manager level; "pixar" way of doing things so less innovation and room for autonomy

Pros

Great food and amazing people. Good benefits and perks

Cons

They still and have always struggled to pay their production management team what they deserve. If you're hired as a PA or Coordinator be prepared to make little to no money for 5-6 years. I've been at Pixar for over 3 years and I still can't afford rent and the living costs in the Bay Area. Artist interns make more than Senior Coordinators. They do nothing compensation wise to maintain top talent for the production management team and they'll continue to lose team members as upper management doesn't seem to care about the employee turnover rate as there's a line of people that would die to fill the position.

Pros

Amazing benefits and super cool to say you work here of course, my kids loved it.

Cons

Creativity is not rewarded, at least on the engineering side of things. And anybody who has been there less than 3 years is deathly afraid of whoever they report to, so they do not share their true opinions often in my experience.

Pros

- Wonderful people and talented graphics engineers - C++, Python shop - Great work/life balance - Really cool perks. The wrap parties are a blast and the crew gifts are lovely. - It's great working with artists and other non-engineers so closely.

Cons

Full disclosure: I'm young and ambitious and it took me a while to finally learn that I should probably be working at a startup instead. - Way lower pay than other tech companies. I know one software engineer who was getting paid 75k a year. - No growth. Pixar hits the holy trinity of never getting promoted: 1) Great place to work for so no one leaves 2) Company is not growing at all nor does it have any ambitions to grow 3) Everyone wants to work at Pixar Because of that, the feeling of being stifled and underutilized is widely shared among everyone at Pixar. Even people who have been there 25 years can only move horizontally. The number of people who have been there and desperately desire leadership positions but can't get them even after 10 years at Pixar is depressing to see for someone like me. - It's very easy for engineers to simply coast. I know engineers there who are completely comfortable doing the same thing every day without growing and that behavior is actively rewarded. - Poor managerial feedback for how to grow as an employee. - There is a major fear with some teams that their engineers are going to leave for sexier teams inside Pixar which is toxic.