CoSA VFX Reviews

3.7

62% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)
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Tom Mahoney

87% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

CoSA VFX has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CoSA VFX employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
25 Jan 2018

Great shows but lack of leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- 1 hr lunch break - friendly artists - met some of my closet friends here - Pretty good at ensuring people leave the office at 7pm - Snacks - Good tv shows

Cons

- Company wide threat about job security - Micromanagement from a partner - as long as the work is getting done, their is no need to be so controlling of other people's personalities. This is not elementary school! - Politics - Some management/sups want to protect their jobs and will do what it takes to protect their back. I watched several people get thrown under the bus during meetings. I also watched a team fall apart on a project. - Weekend OT

1.0
9 Apr 2016

Terrible management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have promised health insurance for several years, but employees pay more than if they purchased independently.

Cons

The "partners" / owners are very disorganized and terrible managers. Quality does not seem to be first priority. The partners treat employees like cattle, very little regard for proper desks or working environment. Employees are worked to death, and are expected to work weekends consistently. Very little planning or management / professionalism of any kind by partners. One of the partners is clearly mentally ill (has his unsocialized dog with him constantly at work). Not a professional work environment and the work-product suffers.

1.0
1 June 2016
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work on amazing projects with amazing people

Cons

My pro was sarcastic and a lie. You work with the worst management/HR in the industry. These people are the delinquents of VFX. Meaning these are the morons nobody would/should hire anywhere else. They know nothing about VFX. The company has no pipeline, their supervisors are a joke, with years of industry experience, yet, 0 industry/production knowledge. They are the, Fake It Till You Make It, type of people. The owners have 0 respect for their hard working artists. They will fire you in the most inappropriate and unprofessional manner. One of the heads loves telling people, "Most of you WILL NOT be back for next season." To me, this is the most fear mongering approach to getting artists to fear for their jobs and somehow work harder, It's also a sign of poor leadership. Instead of talking with artists that may not be performing at the level of this studios expectations, and giving them positive critiques, they just fire them,. I have witnessed first hand a head of a department throw another supervisor under the bus, after telling artists to do a job one way, going over that supervisors head, and when the work was not done as the client had asked for, the head blamed it on the unknowing supervisor, who actually gave his artists the correct notes, but was immediately undermined by this head. Point being, this place is full of heads/supervisors/owners who bring too much drama, and not any real professional experience to the table. Basically ran by a lot of losers. Do not work here, I've told almost every artist in town to avoid this place, and if you're reading all these bad reviews, you'll do yourself a huge solid by avoiding such a pathetic excuse of a studio.

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