Best company to work for in animation industryThe good thingsI believe this company deserves more credit for their work so let me enumerate the good things:
It's the only company in the animation industry in the Philippines that has its own "Employee Experience team" dedicated to make our working experience pleasurable, exciting, engaging, and productive. Occasionally, they'd send out a box of free stuff just because they are thankful to us for being with Play'n GO, just because they can! No other company I know has this next-level of appreciation to its employees.
Benefits include free gym membership, HMO with 1 dependent and insurance (yes, BOTH), unlimited coffee with the office barista (who even has a menu board much like a coffee shop) who can make a coffee however you want! Not to mention a generous one-time work from home financial benefit you can spend on improving your home office upon regularization. We even get an annual training budget of a generous amount which we can spend on buying online tutorials, or even attending workshops/seminars we want to in align to our jobs. The office is very cozy (think Google headquarters), they even have a karaoke room and gaming room filled with video games and game consoles. Again, I am writing this in the perspective of an animator in the Philippine animation industry where a company like this is a rare find.
Work-wise, they give us the freedom to be creative in our animation work. They let us go crazy with the direction we personally want and it's usually included in the end product. The colleagues are very helpful and a breeze to work with. We share animation ideas whenever we can. We are encouraged to learn new techniques/software to include in our workflow that's why we have the annual training budget. The upper management appreciates how important their employees are that's why they take care of us, and we take care of them.
The challengesComing up with new animation ideas and constant skills improvement. Release dates would be moved earlier giving us shorter time to produce, but they're manageable anyway.