Airship reviews

2.9

60% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)

43% positive business outlook

Airship has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Airship employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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30 reviews
1.0
Dec 22, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Other artist employees are friendly and helpful

Cons

The studio hires mainly junior artists. This sounds nice until you realise they are exploiting these artists lack of experience. It might be easy getting a job at Airship but it is not a good introduction to the industry as their practices and timeframes aren't (and shouldn't be) industry standard. I would even avoid Airship as a studio looking for an outsource vendor, even if just to make sure not to support sweatshop practices. High turnover of staff, with the studio trying to cover this up by branding themselves as a "stepping stone" to get into the industry.

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Airship Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We aim to have a workplace that fosters collaboration with clear guidance and expectations for our employees, and we’re sorry we weren’t able to provide you with that. We are taking the initiative to improve as a company, so your feedback gives us valuable insight into how to achieve that. If you have the time and would like to provide more details, feel free to message megan.hanson@airship-images.com. Thank you again for your feedback, Sincerely, Airship Interactive People & Talent Department
4.0
Dec 21, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The people here are amazing. As a woman in this industry, its not always been easy, but Airship has truly been a supportive studio with none of the gender oriented issues I've faced in other studios. But most importantly, it is filled with really nice, kind and super talented artists. There is a few really awesome producers and the management has been really good to me.

Cons

Location is not perfect for young people, but it is a really safe and lovely area that suits me well. I really don't have many bad things to say, this place has been really good, there are very few issues and the management team addresses things quickly.

1.0
Dec 17, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good stepping stone to get in to the industry. Some CPR trained employees. Fridge to store food in.

Cons

- Management and PR pretend it is the best studio publicly and on social media. Internally they don't care about their employees. - Management pretend there's no crunch, when the crunching is consistent. They set such absurd time constraints on tasks and pressure artists that "you aren't required to do overtime if you don't want to - but this needs to be finished by tomorrow" - Absurd time logging requirements. You have to log your time spent on anything down to the minute. Helping other people, getting a drink, using the bathroom, taking a break to stretch your legs, all needs to be logged. - When you first arrive at the studio you will be smothered with promises of career opportunities and promises to help you become a better artist. However these are later used against you to push on your insecurities and continuous gaslighting to make you feel grateful you even have a job there. - Upper management known to be very creepy/overly flirtatious with female employees (do not work here if you are a woman). - Upper management will only praise an artist if it makes them look good in the process or fits a current public agenda (women in games). - Management call the artists "ungrateful" when the team raise their concerns about the atmosphere and how they want it to improve. - Gaslighting is rife throughout the team from management. Artists are told they aren't good enough, that they can't meet these (unreasonable) time frames for their tasks. Promised work on a project they like once they finish their current work, to then see the work given to someone else once they finish their task. - Private information said in confidence to managers has been told to other employees in order to create some kind of trust between those people and management. - Blame is squarely placed on the artists when something goes wrong, even if the issue has been raised by said artists previously which management has either downplayed or flat out ignored.

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