All talk and no action - Anonymous employee Steamroller Studios Employee Review

*You can work for years here and have very little to put on your demo reel *Pay is very low and the studio is very stingy with money in general, but they will spend huge amounts on their IPs/passion projects *A lot of the projects aren't very interesting and you can get stuck on the same project for years. Most people come to the studio to work on steamrollers IP's, but only a few 'favorite' animators will be put on those projects *Studio feels very separate project to project. Every project feels isolated and there's no unity even within departments *Communication is really bad. Vital information rarely reaches anyone it needs to. Mainly you have to listen to rumors to try and piece together what's going on *Very little room for promotions *There's been a decent amount of furloughs that turn into layoffs recently *Many departments desperately need more people and become overworked and stressed. The studio also doesn't like to pay for OT which leads to people being overworked and ghosting hours *There's an aura of toxic positivity. It's very frowned upon to mention anything negative. It can make a lot interactions feel cold and unauthentic *There's a good amount of gaslighting from the higher ups and refusal to see what is wrong and fix it. It just feels like nobody in management actually knows what they're doing.