Don't. - Anonymous employee Hydraulx Employee Review

The brothers are often late on paying their employees (currently two days late as I write this). When the checks do come, they are backdated to when you should have legally received them -- in other words, if I do finally receive my paycheck tomorrow (the 27th), it will without a doubt be dated the 25th as if that's when I received it. Pay has been delayed by as much as two weeks, and it seems recently pay is late more often than it is on time. Contractors often similarly get paid incredibly late. On top of the consistently late pay, the W2s given to employees are clearly puposely falsified. Each paystub states what taxes are taken out and for what purpose (state, federal, etc.), but the W2s are not a reflection of this practice -- i.e., someone that made $100,000 in 2015 received a W2 from the company stating they only made $7,000, and therefore the W2 is stating that the employee only paid in taxes a small portion of what was actually taken out of their paychecks throughout the year. It is unclear where the "tax" dollars taken out of the paychecks actually do go (though there are rumors) but it makes it impossible to file taxes -- most employees file for extensions and wait months (sometimes longer) to receive their rebate. Many employees haven't even received a W2 (it's almost June!). Who knows where their tax dollars went. It is a very negative environment all around. I would not recommend this place for someone serious about working in the visual effects world, or someone serious about being treated like a valued employee or person in general.