Bardel Entertainment Reviews

Pros

Easy to get hired, some fun projects

Cons

Low payment, lots and lots and lots of OT, you are expected to do OT without payment, they make you feel OT is your fault, producers are rude and demand more and more work

Advice to Management

You have humans, not machines.

Pros

Great artists, decent projects to work on, convenient location.

Cons

Low pay Don't pay overtime Their pipeline is broken and expect artists to make up for it I got let go after I tried to discuss some temporary but serious health issues I was experiencing. They expect too much from you, but don't want to budge if you need something from them.

Advice to Management

Back in day when we were working on mostly flash, I'd say that was a good time for this company, management seemed great, work life was really chill and exciting, not sure what happened to you guys over the years, but you've lost your way, you won't grow and get better if you don't listen to your artists. They're not crazy, they're not asking for too much.

Pros

Nothing to say really maybe time to shut down

Cons

They don't pay overtime, and they have a broken pipeline where they expected the workers to compensate.

Advice to Management

Quit, hire people that know what they are doing

Pros

- The artists were amazing to work with - Decent location - Cool projects to work on

Cons

- During my time there I received little to no training from my supers and manager, usually being told to ask the artists/supervisors for directions on how to do production work. Often just left on my own to figure out how to do my job. - When a coordinator left I was given her workload with no guidance, no promotion or pay raise. I figured once I had proven myself that would change, it did not. After taking a... prescheduled vacation the position was filled without my knowledge and I was left with no work to do. - Production staff were cliquey and often unprofessional, routinely complained about artists in inappropriate ways. - HR was extremely incompetent in the time I was there, hopefully it has improved, but were unable to offer help and forwarded my emails asking if there were any shows I could move to when my contract ended to my PM instead of replying. - My production team refuesd to help me find a new contract and effectively burned my chances of working in the industry by refusing to give me the title of the job I had done for them for almost 9months.

Advice to Management

- Improve attitudes in your production departments, they should be more respectful of artists and shouldn't operate like a highschool cafeteria. - Improve working conditions for artists, stop pitching low bids to shows and making the artists work overtime to make the deadlines you set wrongly.

Pros

Very relaxed, and friendly work environment. Allot of talented individuals. But allot of the, "don't worry about it, well finish it somehow" mood goes around. Pushes a lot of important things that should have been done little by little, too being done last minute instead and suffering in quality.

Cons

Studio suffers from, "don't worry about it, well finish it somehow" mood. Pushes a lot of important things that should have been done little by little, too being done last minute instead and the projects suffer for it.

Advice to Management

Be a little stricter on the artists. It's an odd thing to say as an artists myself. But too many artists got away with too many things that made the work lazy and not meeting standards.

Pros

Nice area, clean comfortable studio

Cons

Management can sometimes seem unprofessional

Pros

Cool projects to work on. Nice beer Friday and dogs. I was told it was a sweat shop by previous artists but so far it’s been great. Relaxed atmosphere and friendly people to work with.

Cons

Short contract would be nice if it is longer

Advice to Management

every studio has the next “big” project they can’t name coming. Would be nice to know more so we don’t keep looking for the next gig.

Pros

Mostly project based. Either the show appeals to you or not. Standard pay. Standard get the most bang for their buck

Cons

Anti social vibe . every project is managed differently

Advice to Management

Sharing thoughts, reviews and critiques on individuals performances should be kept private and professional . stop favoring those with the gift of gab