MotionLit Services Reviews

The brothers who run this company are horrendous managers who take zero personal responsibility for anything, and will force employees to do extra work, often during weekends or after work hours to make up for management's issues. Meetings that should take 5 minutes stretch on for 2 hours just so they can hear themselves talk. They require a meeting for every stage of the videos. You'll often be unable to get ahold of them for days, and then when they finally do respond it'll be for a massively overlong meeting where they'll freak out about some tiny issue that pushes things further and further behind. They have no respect for anyone's time but their own. Any time scheduled to meet with them you can be confident they will not show up to. They expect their workers to put in hours and hours of overtime, which would be fine if they seemed even remotely grateful, but they aren't. You will work yourself into exhaustion for them, and then they won't care that you did so at all. The brothers will go off on vacations in the middle of the week, throwing projects behind because they're no longer available to give the feedback they insist they must give in order to deliver the video. Meanwhile employees get 2 days off a year. Seriously. One of the most ridiculous things to see is when one of the brothers fails to remember his own opinions on things, and will get mad that other people don't have his page of notes in front of them so that he can remember his own thoughts on the subject. If you're a videographer, you'll be expected to do a 1 person shoot, with a cheap camcorder, often within extreme time constraints, and often where you'll have driven 6 hours to get to the location before starting a full shoot day, but if any of the footage is slightly dark, or if the subject gives a poor answer, the brothers will freak out at you for it. You'll be micromanaged and nitpicked to death for every tiny imperfection, but will never hear a positive word even if something is done well. It's not an environment that fosters any sort of positivity or growth. Stay away.

My first gripe was when I first interviewed; they told me very last minute that I'd be starting off with a lower "introductory" salary, something they have neglected to mention in the job listing. A lot of reviews here seem to point out that the founders have micromanagement issues, but I honestly think it's more about their inability to manage time. They are constantly out of the office, and even when they are, they are constantly in lengthy meetings. I would often see people lining up outside of the founders' offices just to get feedback. And this would usually be towards the end of the day. Of course, by the time you even get any sort of feedback, it's likely they will turn it down. As for feedback, because the founders couldn't dedicate enough time to run through your work, the feedback was often inconsistent. They would ask you to do things one way, but the next hour they would change their minds completely. This would result in unpaid overtime, and late night phone calls and texts (and usually at hours where people are expected to go to bed). There were a few positions that only lasted a few weeks, or positions that would become vacant every month or so. Layoffs were very frequent.