Sony Pictures Animation Reviews

The people in key positions ignore artists, have no trust in them, and just generally treat them very poorly. Decision making from above is constantly contradicting itself, and then blaming the artists. Deadlines make no sense at all. Hours are super inconsistent.

Unfortunately, a rapidly metastasizing culture of leadership evading accountability for the times they make mistakes or lack clear direction, of which simply owning those would be acceptable and set a strong precedent, instead led to a chronic scapegoating of the crew for not completing tasks they were never assigned. This snowballed further into abnormally high levels of entirely avoidable layoff and rollover. At the studios request I stayed on to help solve those underlying issues to avoid this, but after months of those efforts not only going unmet with bad faith efforts, the problem worsened and too many professional and moral lines had been crossed by that point. This left me realizing I could either stay and remain complicit in undue treatment and firings of my team members or resign. I resigned. Over the following year a large number of people continued to be let go in these waves of layoffs, or also quit as I did in protest which at the very least confirmed I had made the right call. Still, I wish it had never happened to begin with and was a sad end to what began as honestly one of the most enjoyable roles of my career.