Lemonlight Reviews

4.3

84% would recommend to a friend

(110 total reviews)

Hope Horner

82% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Lemonlight has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lemonlight employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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110 reviews
1.0
24 May 2019

Don't Believe The Hype

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Snacks were okay, and dogs were allowed

Cons

Don't believe the hype. This company is poorly run, which is why the turnover rate is so high. I guarantee all the reviews were written by the founders and their family members. No one I know who has worked here has had a great experience. There are no clear job descriptions, the founders are catty, and the entire company runs on gossip. I don't have any hostility towards the company, I just want to warn the next victim! (And I'm sure they will attempt to delete this review as soon as they see it).

1.0
17 May 2023

Stay Away to Keep Your Sanity

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fantastic production team. Everyone is truly passionate about the work. Plenty of opportunities to work with large brands and create interesting content. Unlimited PTO is nice, but is on a first come first serve basis; if you aren't the first on your team to request it off, you will be denied. We used to have a hybrid 3 days in office 2 at home schedule, now a 4 days in office and 1 day from home model.

Cons

Looking through the positive reviews here, you'll notice most come from the sales team. Everyone has their own experience and I can only speak from a production perspective. If you want to be constantly micro managed, have an insane workload (1 person doing the work of 3), be constantly berated that you are not hitting these unrealistic goals, deal with passive aggressive inter-department communications, and demands that you be on call and available at all hours, then Lemonlight is the place to be. I have never seen a production company who cares so little about the well being of the production team. Production is totally overworked and underpaid, yet there are other departments who turn the office into a party every Friday around 3pm complete with loud music, video games and alcohol. Yet, we are expected to keep our heads down and make it work. Having events or company parties are all well and good, but not in the middle of a work day. And good luck going to a higher up with issues about this, they are often right in the middle of it. There is an incredibly high turnover throughout the production team as everyone is struggling to keep up with the increasingly high demands and burn out is at an all time high. Retention has long been an issue here, with several team members quitting each month and replacements sometimes taking up to 2 months to be onboarded and brought up to speed, leaving everyone else to barely tread water in the meantime. Unfortunately, there is no urgency on management's part to address any of the above; it is very much a "suck it up, this is how we do things" mentality.

2.0
1 Jun 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly employees, CEO is still very present in the day-to-day, emphasis on activities/company culture.

Cons

Extremely unrealistic expectations on their entire creative team because the company prioritizes ad sales over production quality, translating to an unbalanced ratio of "rush" projects to editors/creative producers. Everybody working at Lemonlight is consistently overloaded, resulting in sub par performance. Productions and post-production workflows are very disorganized, and salaried employees are expected to put in much more than 40 hours per week in order to meet deadlines. As an editor, you can expect to spend anywhere from 8-12 hours a week day and 2-6 hours a weekend at a 40-hour-a-week salary. Lastly, as an editor, you are expected to be a one-stop shop for not only editing and sound design, but also color-grading, motion graphics, graphic design, and SFX (such as screen replacement, taking out logos, etc). This might be fine if you have a realistic timeline and bandwidth, but often you will only have 1-2 days notice on a new project while simulateously being expected to complete complicated revisions on 5+ other projects.

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