Working in-house?
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- d_rek0
Worked at a small (10 person) studio in downtown detroit for almost 3 years and then jumped to in-house at a global engineering firm last May (about 9 months here).
Most of the work that is done is for our parent companies subsidaries, which is surprisingly varied. The pros are that the people here are generally very easy to get along with and pretty much let you take as much creative liberty as you want - within the confines of their conservative engineer-minded approaches (heh). The cons are that the workflow at times can be depressingly organic and unstructured, with lots of different people chiming in and making decisions and throwing their egos around.
Does it afford me more creativity? I think that's largely a matter of the individual. I don't think working here affords me any more/less creativity than work at the studio did. Sure, the client-base was more varied at the studio but that really didn't mean a whole lot when most of the clients sucked.