CoSA VFX Reviews

3.7

62% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)
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Tom Mahoney

87% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

CoSA VFX has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CoSA VFX 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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1.0
9 Apr 2016

Terrible management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They have promised health insurance for several years, but employees pay more than if they purchased independently.

Cons

The "partners" / owners are very disorganized and terrible managers. Quality does not seem to be first priority. The partners treat employees like cattle, very little regard for proper desks or working environment. Employees are worked to death, and are expected to work weekends consistently. Very little planning or management / professionalism of any kind by partners. One of the partners is clearly mentally ill (has his unsocialized dog with him constantly at work). Not a professional work environment and the work-product suffers.

1.0
1 Jun 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to work on amazing projects with amazing people

Cons

My pro was sarcastic and a lie. You work with the worst management/HR in the industry. These people are the delinquents of VFX. Meaning these are the morons nobody would/should hire anywhere else. They know nothing about VFX. The company has no pipeline, their supervisors are a joke, with years of industry experience, yet, 0 industry/production knowledge. They are the, Fake It Till You Make It, type of people. The owners have 0 respect for their hard working artists. They will fire you in the most inappropriate and unprofessional manner. One of the heads loves telling people, "Most of you WILL NOT be back for next season." To me, this is the most fear mongering approach to getting artists to fear for their jobs and somehow work harder, It's also a sign of poor leadership. Instead of talking with artists that may not be performing at the level of this studios expectations, and giving them positive critiques, they just fire them,. I have witnessed first hand a head of a department throw another supervisor under the bus, after telling artists to do a job one way, going over that supervisors head, and when the work was not done as the client had asked for, the head blamed it on the unknowing supervisor, who actually gave his artists the correct notes, but was immediately undermined by this head. Point being, this place is full of heads/supervisors/owners who bring too much drama, and not any real professional experience to the table. Basically ran by a lot of losers. Do not work here, I've told almost every artist in town to avoid this place, and if you're reading all these bad reviews, you'll do yourself a huge solid by avoiding such a pathetic excuse of a studio.

1.0
19 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you have motivation you can learn a lot and get a lot for your reel. Make no mistake this is not because they push you to do great work. This is because there is no concept, no direction, a shot is you from start to finish. This is a great thing for someone motivated, but it can be stressful.

Cons

-Loves to fire groups of people to show their control over you.(They love to have company wide meetings and tell you that some of you wont be working here soon, so everyone needs to produce better work. What? Can't you just talk to the under performers instead of threatening everyone.) -Everything is due yesterday(There is no concept in deadlines and dates, management has no clue what management means, when asking when is something due well its due right now. What? No this is unacceptable you need to plan out your shows and shots, you can't just say everything is due yesterday its not funny and its unprofessional) -There are 4 partners and they are all taking shots in all 4 directions.(one direction please, don't run around with your heads cut off. Each partner should take care of a show not each partner weighs in on every show, cause a lot of times a partner will be missing and now another partner wants to take over and change the direction completely.) -Hardware is old(Cheap company doesn't invest in the artists) -No pipeline(this can be good until your working with others on a shot and everyone is doing their own thing) -3D sup will throw you under the bus. -No clear direction -No parking at all, you have to fight in the morning with residents across the street. Everyone gets parking tickets. In short Cosa is an immature company run by inexperienced owners, they need to figure out how to run a business and how to treat their employees with respect.

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