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Pixar Animation Studios

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An amazing place to work that combines art and technology - Software Engineer Pixar Animation Studios Employee Review

5.0
12 Dec 2012
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Pros

People see the movies you help to create! Highly rewarded for working hard, personal creativity is encouraged in engineers (similar program to google 20% time), great benefits and pay. I love the mix of art and technology, which extends also to engineering. The recent embrace of open sourcing our internal software is also exciting.

Cons

For the most part, engineering work is not public facing (aside from the new open source projects), so anything you build is only used by internal clients. Also, like top tier colleges, you have to work extremely hard to get an A, but on the flip side, if you're not into working hard, getting a B is pretty easy and nothing bad will result from being average.

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5.0
14 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture. The best people in the industry.

Cons

There’s little room to grow.

5.0
16 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very warm and welcoming. They have a lot of resources that we were able to use to help us during our time there.

Cons

Nothing really. Besides paying for lunch but the food was good.

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