Like rotting inside a sweet fruit - Anonymous employee REEL CANADA Employee Review

1.0
29 Sept 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good coworkers - Interesting projects - Movie watching perks (access to Candian movies on company time) - extra day off for long weekends

Cons

- Management is controlling, arrogant. emotionally immature and manipulative - Extremely low pay with little upward mobility possibility - So much unpaid overtime during the spring season (toxic) - Will be asked to do jobs outside of your role including emotional labour - No HR department - Company is primarily white - Somehow we have funds for new hires all the time and flying out people but not paying employees a livable wage - Inappropriate comments from ED and AD is common - ED told us we are failing at our job if we do not talk at each meeting

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4.0
30 Sept 2019
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Pros

Meet new and interesting people in the film industry and participate in meaningful events

Cons

Work culture can be cliquey at first

1.0
14 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You'll learn a lot — mostly about what a dysfunctional workplace looks like.

Cons

Where to begin. This company has zero respect for your time or any semblance of work-life balance. Expect to have your boundaries pushed constantly with no acknowledgment or compensation for it. Even worse, don't count on your contract meaning anything — commitments made in writing are treated as suggestions when it's convenient for leadership. There's no HR department, and that's not an accident. It's a deliberate choice, because an actual HR function would expose the mountain of issues this company doesn't want documented or addressed. Employees have no real avenue for raising concerns, which means problems fester and nothing ever gets resolved. Meanwhile, the founders are doing just fine. The compensation disparity between leadership and the people doing the actual work is jarring — and demoralizing once you see it up close.

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