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Good company for customers, worst company in my career to work for. Ever.
By Employee
Great products, unbelievable prices, personal service that is nice when you can get it, but not organized or formal enough to be efficient.
By customer
Disastrous. This company is career suicide for any professional. Yes, the initial salary is good, yes, the company has good ideas and attempts to do things the right way, with the right resources, but there is no long term plan, no internal communication and when the time comes, your project will get canceled and you will get fired. The only way to survive at this company is to always say "yes" to the boss and never disagree with him. Never. Did I mention there is no internal communication? This makes figuring out what the boss wants difficult and makes agreeing with 100% him impossible. And he will change his mind tomorrow and blame you anyhow. And David moved the company to India anyhow. Lower salaries and a more agreeable staff that never disagrees with you. Makes sense.
By Employee
Worst office culture I have ever worked in. Morale is at zero. Attempts to bring morale up involve threats. When President Viv Beason is not around (which is about 50% of the time when he's not out driving around in his Lamborghinis), the staff can get a lot of work done. When he is around, everyone is terrified he may throw a random fit about a random topic. Morale in the office is catastrophically low. Good thing there are only about 2 people left in the US office.
By employee
Really good starting salary. Too bad you'll get fired or forced out in short order. The good salary does not make up for all of the other negatives and recently most of the top creative professionals have left the company to go work for a much lower salary someplace else.
By employee
Good if you can get it, haphazard at best. It took me many e-mails and eventually a phone call to get through, but once I did, my problem was handled.
By customer
Depressing and chaotic. Projects start, projects mature, projects are canceled and new emergency projects are started. Repeat.
By ex-producer
I agree, good salary up front, but zero salary after your projects are all canceled and you are fired with minimal severance.
By ex-producer
I kind of disagree. Career growth can be good as far as building your portfolio and reel with good equipment on wide open projects, but then there's the getting fired part, which isn't good for your career.
By ex-producer
Terrible company to work for. Boss won't tell you what he wants until the project is nearly finished and then he might hate it (and you) so much that he'll just cancel the whole thing in a fit of anger.
By ex-producer
Yes, I agree here too. The quality of the output is often outstanding at every level. Well, except for the Juicer software, which no one inside the company actually uses.
By ex-producer
Horrible communication and everyone is terrified of the boss who always changes product specifications, making deadlines earlier if you are making good progress and adding new features every day. Old features never get finished and are forgotten. Impossible to guess what is going to be important, since boss says everything is important, but clearly some things are less since they get dropped or forgotten. Good luck with your telepathic abilities to figure out what the boss will be thinking today, because if you guess wrong, he will yell or even throw something at you.
By Juicer
Good springboard to another company, but that is about it.
By Juicer
Do not work for this company. All of my colleagues have left the company for lower paying jobs at companies with better management.
By Juicer
Good salary but no increment. People leave the company all the time for jobs with lower salaries proving that money isn't everything.
By Juicer
Insane development environment. Good staff but pressure to add new features is crazy. Simple software functions do not work right but new fancy ideas are added everyday. No formal release schedule, no formal QA process, no version control. Happily, software is free to public, but that is the only good part.
By RamEng
You will love your colleagues, love your managers and hate your boss. When boss is on vacation, it is dream job and work gets finished.
By RamEng
You will hate life and work and go someplace else as soon as one year.
By RamEng
Childish CEO and best friend president both prone to throwing temper tantrums and some times mobile phones. I think that sums up the office culture nicely.
By Sad to Leave
Fantastic, talented, creative, hard working employees eventually get sick of childish incompetent bosses and leave.
By Sad to Leave
Great products. I still use them all the time. But no, I don't use the Juicer software either.
By Sad to Leave
Good for your resume and demo reel and salary but bad for everything else, including your physical, emotional, and mental health.
By Sad to Leave
Yes good salary, no increment and after a year you will trade it all for a lower salary some place else. Any place else.
By Sad to Leave
Great interview from lower levels, but no professional HR staff. Great and exciting interview from President too, but eventually you realize he was blowing wind up your butt and was delusional about not only what your job was supposed to be but also about the project you were hired for, which might evaporate in a tantrum.
By Sad to Leave
Mixed bag. The media files are really great which is the product I guess. But the endless bad discs the company ships and the buggy Juicer software makes me ping against. Sorry.
By Berg
Everyone I talked to in customer service has been very nice and helpful, but it can be very hard to get a response and they often do not have a solution. Not their fault, but problems with the company.
By Berg
Unpredictable, unstable, unprofessional. Unquestionably, you should stay away.
By Wow
Demoralizing, depressing, demeaning, you will depart as soon as you can figure out how to.
By Wow
Awesome products and the best prices in the industry.
By DJFan
"employees generally read the forums to find out what the latest word is from me" CEO David Hebel post in the public forums. Yes, the lack of internal communication is profound.
By Juicer
Firesale prices excellent product what more can you want.
By Serious
I talked to 2 people on the phone and both were good.
By Serious
I hate to jump on the bandwagon but if I knew then what I know now, I would never work for CEO Dave Hebel. I still work for Juice and it is mostly OK but not when the CEO is involved. Mostly I have no contact with him and then things are OK, but when I do have contact with him it is always unpleasant and some time traumatic.
By Agree
Good ideas and lots of resources for projects until the project is canceled. If you can live with project parameters never being spelled out and always changing and some times getting yelled at for not anticipating a change then it is a pretty fun job.
By Agree
It is funny if it was not so tragic. Worst office culture ever.
By Agree
If you love working for an egomaniac boss who thinks he knows more about your job than you do, even though you have a decade of experience, this is the job for you!
By Rick
Career growth is actually exceptional... after you get laid off.
By Rick
Fun and really productive when the boss isn't interfering. Wait, the boss is always interfering. Nevermind. Terrible office culture.
By Rick
Good salary negated by terrible increment of being laid off on a whim. Negative money overall, unless you can land a new job before you get fired.
By Rick
I really had a fun interview experience. Too bad the interview was the best time I spent with the company.
By Rick
yes, worst office culture ever in US office at least. depressing. sad. nervous. it is all Mr. Lamborghini's fault and his ADHD neurotic best pal in India.
By Jerry
stay away or you will regret it unless you consider this a short term temp job that you will be released from at some unpredictable date in the future without a word of thanks and without any sort of evaluation or reason
By Jerry
good as a temp job to put on your resume but I assume this category is for career growth at the company and not what you get after
By Jerry
Chaotic software development environment ever. Software features never frozen, QA nonexistant, no tracking, ancient bugs never fixed and aren't even on the priority list while new features are added daily.
By RDJ
If you work on software team, just do what boss says, not what you know needs to be done. If you can demo a feature, don't worry about making it good, just code it and forget it. If it only runs on your environemtn and the bosses, that is all that matters.
By RDJ
So bad you will want to leave in one month.
By Jah
Good products fun projects nice pay but boss is a jerk. I know all bosses are jerks but this is different. Trust me.
By Jah
good for resume, bat for career
By Jah
bad bad bad company to work for. i would leave if i could, but as a father, i am held hostage to this job.
By Coder
no growth I am stuck. Help! let me out of this company!
By Coder
terrifying office culture. You know what is wrong but you cannot fix it and cannot even suggest what is wrong.
By Coder
No way to move up at company because it is too small. You can be given a lot of responsibilty initially though so it can be good for getting your next job.
By CRJ
terrible management. the company is too hard to work for because everything always changes. if you are hired to do one thing, you will be doing something else in six months or fired :@
By crpro
haha too funny career?
By crpro
so so sad and depressing
By crpro
boss thinks he knows more than you about everything turns out he might be good at something but you never know just always say yes to whatever he says and you can make your money
By coreman
it is true that everyone hates their job mostly because of office environment with is crazy and always changing every week boss is crazy and yelling all the time amazingly unprofessional
By coreman
it is good for career growth but you will hate your life every day at this job
By coreman
O come on the company isn't that bad. I had fun when I was there. I wouldn't say the company is evil as much as it is really poorly run. I am not saying I would do better. I start projects all the time and then lose interest and I understand how Dave works. It is just too bad we all get caught in his hobby. So take it for what it is. I would use Digital Juice for whatever you can because it is for sure going to use you and then dump you when you are no longer useful. Not much you can do about it. There are really only about 3 people at the company that have figured out how to make themselves indespensible and that's what you have to do if you want to stay. Most people don't want to stay in this environment though.
By PBJ
Great products!
By PBJ
Actually good for career growth. Just treat your job like an internship that involves whatever odd jobs the company has for you at the moment and that might end at any moment and you will be fine. There are lots of fun things to do and fun projects to work on it is just not stable.
By PBJ
Office culture has moments of really hard work fun. It also has long hours of real darkness and depression and moments of real insantiy. Either Dave or Viv can blow up on a moments notice for reasons you can not foresee. Someone else here wrote childish and that is the best word for it. Not evil, just childish and unprofessional.
By PBJ
Good salary. I liked mine. Not worth the trouble in the long run so I left for a lower paying job but you have to say the salary was good.
By PBJ
I had a fun interview too.
By PBJ
Terrible, terrifying. Professionals should steer clear of working for this company. If you are lookng for a first job to break into the industry, this might be it, but get ready to be abused and don't think that other companies function this way. Some do, most don't.
By goner
Good for career growth. Get lots of experience at whatever you want. Job looks good on resume.
By goner
David Hebel and Viv Beason like to think that they are generous. I wouldn't say generous, but fair.
By Goner
Negative career growth for certain. You will be hired for one reason and immediately repurposed in to a position that you are more than likely not qualified for. Upon being exposed as someone who cannot do the job, you will be ridiculed or fired.
By JuiceisaJoke
HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Salary. You will be lured in with false promises. I agreed to a very mediocre salary with promises of grandure. Four years later, not a single raise, just more promises and lies. Viv Beason is a professional story teller. Beware. Never trust a man with a woman's name. That's a great life lesson.
By JuiceisaJoke
Do not be fooled by Juice's products. The US team tries very hard to give 200% to every product, only for it to be maimed, slashed and reworked by Viv and or Dave. Viv is quoted as saying "I don't care what we make or if it's useful, I just need to sell 1000 units of it." Viv is always trying to cut corners.
By JuiceisaJoke
worst office i have ever worked in (this 4 the US office)
By Alone
terrible company to work for. thats why everyone leaves
By Alone
career black hole dont even think about it
By Alone
I believe that all te comments that you see in the Pings against section are basically angry rants from disgruntled employees.
By happy employee
Awful awful place to work. Current employees in the Lake Mary building hate their jobs. All of them to a person. People with families and morgages and bills stay because they have to and no other reason. Dave is just lucky exemployees don't publicly air all their dirty laundry except here where no one ever sees it.
By bob
Your work for Digital Juice might look good in a good reel, but the amateur company will only look good on your resume to people that don't know any better.
By bob
Awful, terrible, sad, infuriating.
By bob
I think some people got a good salary. I didn't.
By bob
I can't think of any words worse than terrible and terrifying. really. that bad.
By tang
Me too I heard of good salaries but not for me.
By tang
Mostly good. Some duds like the fonts but mostly good products and good prices.
By tang
Digital Juice Rocks!
By YeahRight
There are lots of people at Digital Juice who have been there for many, many years. Most everything I read on the negative side does not ring true. But I can see some of the hateful, spiteful, ex-employees I knew; who only know how to complain, making these negative comments. I'm sure not one of them has the guts to confront and contact their ex-bosses directly. It's much more fun to hide and spew hate and tell lies anonymously behind their back. Digital Juice isn't perfect, but it's not what the negative cowards want you to think by any stretch.
By wb
Not a yes man by any stretch but I enjoy my job most of the time. On no other job would I have gotten to do so much and get paid so well. Yeah, projects get tabled and things change a lot but if you are able to roll with it, you will be rewarded with your efforts. Everything that has ever been explored at the company feeds into some product eventually. The work environment is what you make it. I have had my share of frustrations and been upset to see people go but in the end, I have been glad to stick to it and grow with the company.
By JD
95% of the time it is a great company to work for but the 5% of the time when the bosses are literally abusive does not make the job worth it not even for a fair salary.
By DJ
So there is one person that enjoys their job. I think there are maybe 5 at the whole company and every one of them has a horror story about being yelled at berated called "stupid" and literally brought to tears. Viv literally brags about making people cry. Like the other person says this is a professional environment, not mcdonalds, but the threats tempertantrums yelling and abuse are amazing. Everyone has experience this even the 5 people that can tolerate the moments of abuse and consider this a good job because they make a ok salary and have freedom to work. yes this is the trade off.
By OnePerson
Someone wrote On no other job would I have gotten to do so much and get paid so well. Yes but you also get abused and yelled at to the point of tears maybe once or twice every year. I guess it is worth the rare abuse for the handful of people at the company that have been there for more than a few years. Everyone else leaves.
By really
i dont understand how some can say this is good for career growth. there is no room to move up at company at all but they make big promise in interview. before you accept job, as someone there what they started as and what their job is now and if it is what was said during interview
By tada
yes, this is hte name the boss gave himself. Creative Genius. seriously delusional. He is smart guy but maybe not genius and seriously not a little bit egotistical. Tinks Juicer software is after effects killer and company will be like Apple someday. goodluck!
By Creative Genius
Software features literally change on a daily basis. I am not kidding. If that doesn't say it all. How much do you need to be paid to literally be working on new code every day dropping whatever code you were working on half finished? Don't worry you will eventually get yelled at for not finishing the half finished code. If you want to keep your job just admit that you are an idiot when the boss yells WHY?
By Rapid
Office!!!! I don't think... it's a boarding school...
By Nancy
The Juicer software is some of the worst software I have ever used. A simple file for a composite that should take a minute to copy off the disc takes 30 minutes to render and ends up being 5 times larger than the original. New product has thousands of project files and source animation but all proprietary format. Takes up twice the space and render time and can't be added to batch list so you need to add thousands of files one at a time. All this is when the Juicer works and it often doesn't.
By pro user
So true. The media is great best in class. The Juicer sucks balls big time. Dave Hebel loves it. The render times are the slowest I have ever seen. I am not kidding. File sizes are a joke. Professionals use the source media whenever possible, but Dave demands that we use the Juicer to render whether we want to or not. O and all of this assumes that the Juicer is even working, which it often isn't.
By mediafan
aleast thy havnt hired people to ping in favour of them like avenir has :)
By feedback
They have some great products, and great prices.
By Matt
I agree it looks great on a resume. Given the opportunity to do some cool things.
By Matt
Loved the people I worked with and had a good time working with them. Had to stroke some egos which for me isn't something I like to do, I just want to work and make cool stuff. Was hard at times because stuff changed almost every week. Lack of good management was a problem. A few tense moments but Ive dealt with much much worse in the corporate world. Long hours, I never had a week less than 60 hours, most were in the 70 to 80 hours a week for me, but I did stuff at night from home. Stuff that got no respect or recognition, and often times was looked down upon by coworkers but that was fine and I understood their position. In two years there was only one day I didn't want to go to work, but I let that go. All that said I still liked working there.
By Matt
Salary was good, for some it was great. Problem was Lake Mary is a very expensive place to live so once you factor in the high cost of living, the salary isn't great, but it's not horrible.
By Matt
I had a great interview, dinner at Carrabbas with my wife Dave and Viv, a tour of the old studio in Ocala and a tour of the new place the next day in Orlando. It was a whirl wind and unexpected, but it was cool.
By Matt

Questions:
Digital Juice has such a good reputation so why so many bad comments? Is the US branch really that bad? I know everyone left but I cant believe they would all come here to complain. What about the Bangalor branch?
By Suprized
I heard a rumor that Dave Hebel threw a temper tantrum last year when the video production team won and Emmy award. The story is that he sent a really nasty, bitter email to the team pouting that no one appreciates him because no one told him they were entering, even though his best friend and president of the company Viv Beason who he has daily contact with approved and signed the check to enter the competition. Just a story I heard. Is it true?
By EmmyWinner
I heard there was another round of layoffs in the US office. Does this just happen every couple of years?
By Mary Curious

Answers:
Yes, it really can be that bad, but it is usually not. I think the real problem here is that the work environment is great almost all of the time, but when it goes bad, it goes really really bad. I'm not talking about long hours and tight deadlines. Everyone has that. That's how modern companies work. And even some of the quirks of Digital Juice are tolerable, for example having project deadlines bumped earlier if a project is going well or maybe having a project simply never be released. This happens mostly because there isn't any sort of long term planning beyond the existing month, although there seem to be a lot of dreams. The real problem is that when things go wrong in the bosses head (either of them), it gets really explosive. This happens a couple of times a year, no matter what. After you've been called stupid and the bosses have threatened to just shut the whole company down in a fit of anger, they will go back to normal without a word of explanation or apology. Of course the entire rest of the company is now resentful, angry and profoundly unhappy and will take a lot longer to get back to normal, but they never get a chance because then the next outburst comes. Repeat. After a few cycles, most people leave, at least those that aren't already gone from one of the periodic purges.
By Exmary
The answer is YES - TRUE - SI -
By Agreed
Yes, very true. I was here when it happened.
By Itis True
Yes, David Hebel periodically fired the entire production staff in the United States, like he did recently. Eager and talented creative types beware.
By You're fired.