Pixel Motion Reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(36 total reviews)
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Alex Merino

79% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Pixel Motion has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pixel Motion employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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36 reviews
2.0
2 Feb 2016

Digital Analyst

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I held back on writing this review for a long time. But watching these fake reviews get posted in a desperate attempt to cover up the honest, albeit not always the nicest reviews about this place makes me feel obligated. It's a small company with not a lot of people, and you can tell which ones are fake because of the multiple reviews posted within the same day and within days of each other. There's no real examples of how "innovative" and "creative" the agency is. It's either one person writing this or they're getting the poor new hires who don't realize yet what they got themselves into to write something. Yes, it's laid back, and you can bring your pets to work, and most employees are young and eager to learn, but ugly parts are also true. But at least the people are nice and for the most part you can shape your role to be what you want it to be. It is a get your foot in the door kind of place, and if you have no experience whatsoever in digital and want to learn, then this is a good place to start.

Cons

Work is only stressful when dealing with clients because they're usually unhappy with the services they're receiving. That's an issue with how the business is run. The routine process they use when dealing with unhappy clients is to drop everything, label the situation as a "fire," bend over backwards and do everything we can to make the client happy, show them we did all this stuff on their website and their ads so they're happy again. Soon after, another client starts complaining about a mistake they caught which was caused by neglect from putting all attention to the previous client that was angry. And the viscous cycle repeats. This is an issue with how the business model, lack of adequate training, and lack of leadership. Management occasionally have one on one meetings with employees to assess their happiness in the company and listen to any concerns they may have. More often those concerns go into one ear and out the other because little gets done about it. It's almost pointless sometimes because their hands are tied and it's not up to them to make the final decision. Training consists of shadowing someone who's worked there before you, and it's very much a learn as you work environment. A lot of self learning, so don't be afraid to ask questions and don't be surprised when management tells you they don't know an answer to your question. With such an a rough training process, knowledge is scattered and details get lost. HR is non existant. Hiring process is very informal and subjective. Your experience almost doesn't matter. Most people can get a job here. And from the people I've seen them hire, it's a hit or miss. It's either someone who's ends up being a really good employee, smart, contributes to the company and ends up leaving for a better job with better pay, or someone they end up firing because of their terrible work ethics. Pay is low, way below industry standard, but if you don't have much of a choice and lack experience, then I'd say try to tough it out. At least it's above minimum wage. Your time here is what you make it. You can either learn a lot and become and expert, or learn nothing at all. Plan on paying more than you want for health insurance. Other than that, there's really no benefits that the company provides. Everyone is given the title of "digital analyst" in the digital marketing department even though you're all essentially doing very different jobs. Needless to say, a big reason why the company's in such a mess is because of lack of leadership. Everyone's scrambling to try to get things done, management's attempt to make things better is to find temporary solutions instead of taking the time to find long term solutions for existing and persisting problems. There's no one there with the experience to keep up with the growth the company is facing, nor the experience to solve the problems that keep recurring. Upper management's only thinking about growing the business, growing profits, and not about investing in the resources needed to get there. They lose clients as fast as they gain new ones. Even when they do get new business, the hard work you put in goes unrewarded and is not reflected in any kind of reward or the paycheck you receive.

5.0
26 Jan 2016

Energetic, Innovative Agency

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The agency prides itself on innovation and it shows in the work they do. They find the most talented people to bring on and as a result, the company is very good at what it does which has allowed it to grow and keep bringing on new clients.

Cons

You will need to put in long hours. If you are looking for a place where you can clock in and clock out, this is not the place for you. The work moves quickly and the team moves with it.

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