A Thriving Company - Anonymous employee Studio 5 - Learning and Development Employee Review

Studio 5 has some of the best, most emotionally intelligent people I have ever worked with.

As a small company, Studio 5 doesn't qualify for some of the more generous benefits of larger organizations.

When I started here, it was fabulous. Truly wonderful people in leadership. It stayed that way for the first year and a half. Then, something flipped. They grew super fast, from about 7-8 employees to about 25. I hope they find their way; it was the best place I'd ever worked.

With all the growth came a period of rapidly cycling through HR platforms, then a person, then back to platforms. Policies and processes would change on a dime. The tenor went from positive to punitive. They were particularly inconsistent about how they reviewed us, gave feedback, then gave conflicting feedback...it was impossible to please them. Then came the somewhat random firings--I think seven people within a year. These came without PIPs, and they would promise not to contest unemployment but they did.