Good for your portfolio, but not for long term working.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
A good way into the creative field. A good way to improve your portfolio and learn about documentaries and business films. You will most likely meet lovely people here!
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Lots of flaws to be fixed. Supervisors need to be checked for their behavior, salaries need to be improved and workflow needs improvement. Too much to list here!
Verbesserungsvorschläge
- Listen to your employees! They create the product you're "selling"
- Pay higher salaries. Even for the creative field, this is pretty bad!
- Inspect the work of some of the supervisors. Some of the behavior is just unbearable and should be checked!
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Stressful atmosphere overall. Projects are to be finished as fast as possible without much room for creativity and new ideas. Weekly arguments with supervisors about feedback or workflow add to that. The only thing that made it bearable was the other colleagues who were more than great to work with and improved the overall atmosphere.
Kommunikation
Not the best. Communication between editors was mostly great and on the same level but communicating with certain higher-ups has been a nightmare. Constant questionable changes to workflow and new "guidelines" made it even harder to communicate properly.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
As mentioned before: colleagues really saved the day here. Talented and creative people with great ideas and a good sense of humor. Most of them are still good friends of mine to this day!
Work-Life-Balance
Typical 9-5. Sometimes extra hours are requested but you're never forced to actually do overtime if you're not able to, at least in my department. DoPs and producers had a different experience though, as I heard.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
"Not good" describes it best. Rude, stressful, threats of being laid off from time to time, "Management is not happy yada yada", mood swings, the whole package. It would take too long to describe it all, but generally, some supervisors were hard to work with.
Interessante Aufgaben
Lots of "greenwashing" projects with some rare interesting projects sprinkled in between. Pretty interesting the first two months but it starts to become repetitive after that. Not enough time to invest in most projects for them to be "interesting" unfortunately.
Gleichberechtigung
Mixed experiences. For me personally, it was fine but some colleagues apparently experienced borderline racist comments from some higher-ups. Happened more than once and definitely to multiple colleagues. Not good!
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Mostly young folks working there so pretty hard to determine actually.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Mixed. Some weeks were pretty chill, others just pure chaos. Bad communication leads to stressful deadlines and too many projects which then leads to arguments and even more stress.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Not that I know of.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Pretty bad for the overall creative field. No bonuses. Asking for more money based on workload/responsibilities gets you a polite "no!".
Image
Looks good and professional from the outside but has lots of flaws on the inside.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Not much. You can ask to change your job (for example from editor to producer) but mostly it's not met with much joy.