Pros
Prestigious, (previously) innovative company. You get to work on interesting, high-profile content. Very good health benefits, good pension. One of those stereotypical tech companies with on-site perks like a cafeteria and video games. My direct team were all nice and good to work with.
Kontras
So many people working here are miserable. It's an unspoken thing that your work day is at least 9 hours and then you are expected to be on call essentially at all times. No work-life balance, people regularly message you at 11pm or on a Sunday afternoon. VERY meeting heavy culture, most of which are unnecessary and happen just because. Senior management are so disconnected from the rest of the company and clearly don't care. The company is currently throwing money at new strategies that don’t actually make a profit just to look modern for shareholders. Sketchy HR practices. Nepotism in hiring. Low pay. No opportunities for career growth, they tend to hire new, often unqualified people rather than promoting within. Forced workers back to the office full-time during COVID just because the CEO wants it and thinks if people see offices back in person, they'll go to the movies again (???) Senior management has no direction or concept of what employees’ jobs are like. US management keeps shifting more departments from Canada to the US despite this supposedly being a Canadian company. Extremely depressing since I had so much respect for IMAX coming in to the company. Due to all of the above the company is bleeding people (the staff is all either brand new or people who have been there for decades, before the company got like this) yet management doesn't seem to care.