AVOID AVOID AVOID - Anonymous employee Brella Productions Employee Review

The co-founders of Brella Productions have absolutely no idea how to effectively and efficiently run their company. Inept, poorly trained Project Management rely on production artists to deliver assets regardless of how poorly the project has been run, work has been reviewed, or inadequate assets provided by the client. Departments rarely if ever work in concert to deliver the consistent quality work that they would be more than capable of producing had they skilled managers. The principles treat their employees absolutely terribly--even those who have worked for the company for over a decade. The concept of pre-production is completely foreign, and production artists are expected to work miracles (in addition to insane hours) in order to complete projects that are plagued by near-constant scope-creep. Unless you are part of the Events or Video departments, expect to be overworked, underpaid, undervalued, disrespected, and taken completely for granted, and often replaced with no warning (or cause). And before you wonder if the Powers that Be are simply ignorant of their faults, they have been schooled by everyone from consultants they paid to review their company to former employees. They know exactly what they should be doing, in order to have a well-run, profitable business with loyal staff who give 110%. Instead, incompetence is frequently rewarded, higher-ups are more interested in placing blame than taking responsibility for their actions, and a lot of incredibly talented people are utterly and completely wasted and mismanaged. This is a company that is all about presenting themselves as the cool, fun, antithesis of a corporate drone factory/cubicle farm, yet it's all for show. The "family" atmosphere is used as an excuse to underpay highly trained professionals, hire for entry level positions at below-market wages and throw them into projects with little or no training, refuse to promote from within, instead hiring from outside and putting people with zero production experience in charge of more skilled staff, blame everyone but themselves for shrinking profit margins, and consistently use people and discard them in unprofessional fits of pique. All of the chili cook-offs and picnics on the deck in the world can't make up for the absolutely horrible, toxic environment.