Sundance Institute Reviews

I have never, in my life, worked for a company that had a human resource department that treated employees like pledges in a sorority house. Not all of the members of this department behaved this way, but it only takes one bad apple (in this case two) to destroy the bunch. I witnessed behavior that I would expect from high schoolers...poorly raised high schoolers. Have you ever seen the movie "Mean Girls"?

-Way below market salaries until salary transparency law went into effect Jan 2023 (anyone hired before 2023 was clearly low-balled, underpaid, and overworked). They even hired a consulting firm that told them salaries were too low. Despite PR to be more transparent and equitable, not how things work internally -Extremely high turnover across the board -Raise & Promotion process deliberately opaque (very political). Lots of internal "committees" whose members tend to be secret and make decisions affecting your workload, internal support, growth opportunity, etc -Some Artist Programs have support staff of 3-5, while other Programs have none. Unequal support for program leads managing substantially similar workloads -Questionable financial practices, some self-sufficient Artist Programs bring in revenue and are asked to cut budgets, while the revenue brought in is distributed to other programs internally, lying to donors & sponsors, etc