Pros
-Work with talented, independent filmmakers -Senior Management often supportive of new programs ideas and initiatives -Festival perks -Internal access to virtual events of various Artist Programs -Decent benefits -Attempt to promote DEI initiatives internally - but mostly smoke and mirrors
Cons
-Way below market salaries until salary transparency law went into effect Jan 2023 (anyone hired before 2023 was clearly low-balled, underpaid, and overworked). They even hired a consulting firm that told them salaries were too low. Despite PR to be more transparent and equitable, not how things work internally -Extremely high turnover across the board -Raise & Promotion process deliberately opaque (very political). Lots of internal "committees" whose members tend to be secret and make decisions affecting your workload, internal support, growth opportunity, etc -Some Artist Programs have support staff of 3-5, while other Programs have none. Unequal support for program leads managing substantially similar workloads -Questionable financial practices, some self-sufficient Artist Programs bring in revenue and are asked to cut budgets, while the revenue brought in is distributed to other programs internally, lying to donors & sponsors, etc