MKG Reviews

The LA office is staffed by a cliquey girls club composed of adult women that speak like teenage valley girls and twirl their hair, roll their eyes and stare into the distance when they speak at a meeting. Most have only a few years of narrow experience in one aspect of the field they work in, but throw out ad and marketing jargon to try and sound knowledgeable, but in reality have very little concept of 3D design, fabrication and production. All the designers are freelancers so there’s a frequent turnover, and when an experienced designer brings up an issue, they’re met with dismissive, often condescending responses. It takes twice as many people as it should to complete any project because of the time managers spend chasing each other to needless meetings. Parking is virtually non-existent and expensive

First, a lot of the people feel quirky for the sake of being quirky. Think of New Girl and imagine an office full of people like that. It gets old after about a week. For me, it was all flash and no substance. I could imagine a TMZ style show being made by the company. It just flat out was not for me culturally, in all honesty. The second thing, the CEO is definitely a diva. Walked by him a bunch of times, thought he was a cool guy based on MKG's videos and what I was told by employees, but the guy wouldn't acknowledge my existence (or any intern's existence). There was an office event once and he was standing right next to the table of interns and he didn't glance at us once. Mind you, there's about 50 employees, including about 8 interns. To compare, I was previously with a global communications corporation, and the 90-year-old CEO interacted with all of us at events, learned our names and backgrounds, and even made time for interns to meet him personally and pick his brain. (There were also about 22 interns). Again, the work I was told I was going to be doing wasn't what the reality was. At all. I was really disappointed by this. Between this, an office full of Zoe Deschanels, and the beyond arrogant CEO, it was a nightmare for me. Case in point, 3 of us once carried stuff to the CEO's apartment and changed the batteries in his smoke alarm. So, I had been inside his apartment and fixed his appliances but never the met the guy despite being around him often. Like, what?