Stela Reviews

1) It seems like the "glory days" of this company are already done and gone... apparently the key people who drove this thing in the beginning were also the ones who had the vision, and they're gone. 2) Management doesn't seem to like or understand comics or entertainment. 3) Management tries to keep everyone silo'd so they don't talk to each other. But that also means that no one really knows what is going on. 4) Worst company communication to employees. It seems to be getting worse, too. 5) If you don't speak Mandarin, forget about becoming part of the innercircle. Management only appears to trust you if you speak Mandarin. 6) Social Media - even though we have editors and a PR person working for us, they don't seem to run anything by them, so social media posts are always filled with errors and poor grammar. 7) Management has no respect for the work itself. They don't have a creative bone in their body and don't seem to understand how to cultivate a culture of creativity. 8) They apparently had really good benefits and perks before, but Management keeps cutting back so he can waste money on other things. 9) Creatively, you will go crazy. Hold low expectations, b/c management will find new ways to ask questions that make you think "This person works in Entertainment? How? Huh?" 10) Fake review on here attributes frequent changes of direction to the generic "startup curse", when it's really just the poor leadership, and the panicking of Management. 11) Management can't get out of people's way and let them do good work. They seem to constantly interfere, and they can't finish anything. I move from project to project but none of the projects ever gets finished. They all just kind of sit there half done. 12) Management is indecisive... they have serious problems making decisions. Once they do, they'll change their minds. Multiple times, and often. You can burn weeks while they flip flop back and forth. 13) Management will also refuse to write down any of his decisions. That way they can tell you later that they "never said that", even though multiple people heard them and wrote it down in their notes. 14) Management blames others for everything. He doesn't take responsibility for the company or for his decisions, or for his missteps - and that seems to echo through management. 15) Management doesn't listen. Literally. I've seen other employees tell them things multiple times in multiple meetings, then later on they'll get outraged in "surprise" at something happening that everyone told them was going to happen. They don't pay attention, and they don't read their emails.

The CEO does not want to be in charge of a company but does not want to give up any control. He does not trust anyone to do their jobs and frequently undercuts them and takes away their ability to do anything until they are either beaten down into submission or leave the company entirely. He also frequently changes his mind and cannot give clear direction as to what he wants to see and, ultimately, he'll do it himself in the end, painting over or editing the work of others without their knowledge. The marketing team is huge for how small the company is and how ineffective their marketing style is. Most social media post are lazy and borderline offensive. Management allowed and even encouraged a hostile work environment to grow and did nothing about it except to discourage folks from reporting issues under the guise that we needed to be 'professional', despite the ones creating the issues not acting remotely professional. They allowed two men to harass, bully, intimidate and threaten women and queer creators at the company with no repercussions or care for the mental and physical damage such actions were doing to those targeted.