Vantaggi
401(k) and profit sharing are good if you’re in it for the long haul (5 year vesting period) Working on theme park rides and attractions can be fun. Orlando is a nice place to live. (But not really any other CG related jobs there)
Svantaggi
Lower than average industry pay rates. No overtime It is often expected to work long hours and occasional weekends. Communication from management is horrible. There is a strong sense of do as I say not as I do, management does not lead by example. They over promise and under deliver to clients. The deadlines are always unrealistic, mainly because they don’t consult any of the senior level talent before bidding a job, which ultimately results in sub-par work that you would not want to put on your demo reel. On one hand the management will say well this is theme park CG were not making high end high budget movie quality work but on the other hand they will say the quality needs to improve we should be doing ILM quality work here (but with no time and no budget). A lot of time is wasted by poor management decisions instead of just spending the time to plan properly in the first place. With all of the projects going on and the tight deadlines there just isn't enough render power to render the quality needed and most things only have enough time to be rendered once or may be rendered at half or quarter resolution to get it done on time and then scale those images up to final resolution and hope the client doesn’t notice. You may develop ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) working there since they try to cram several jobs into such a short amount of time you will constantly have to jump between different jobs sometimes on an hourly basis so you never get enough time to focus on one particular task. You will also be expected to work on “Kitchen Duty” which consist of doing the dishes and taking out the trash, for some reason they haven’t realized that if you add up the artists time doing kitchen duty and multiply that by their hourly rate it would be much cheaper to hire a cleaning service and let the artists do what they do best. All of these things are probably what factor into the high turnover rate.