Horror Show for Creatives - Anonymous employee Zynga Employee Review

1.0
Feb 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, coffee bar, gym, shuttle. Frequent happy hours and off-site team events. Dynamic and intelligent engineering staff. Salary competitive.

Cons

Awkward location. Expensive parking. Continuing inability to innovate, find fun, delivery quality, retain players. High turnover. Low morale. Brutal, unashamed and divisive politics, "strategic alliances," and empire building creates dysfunctional teams. Many leaders with no experience in games or entertainment making creative decisions. Product management organization dominated by fear, out of date approach and tools, consultants, cult-like dependence on power point presentations, chronic analysis-paralysis. Languid and clubby ex-EA management. Many, many boys and girls promoted way over their heads and abilities. CEO constantly randomizing and micromanaging teams until they can't function. Still just an analytics company masking as a game company.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 10, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Working at a leader in the mobile gaming industry is a huge plus on your resume. Plus, having the opportunity to work in gaming is fun. - Collaborating with some of the most smartest, creative and innovative people in the gaming/tech space - It's a great opportunity to learn mobile gaming and hone your skillset. Zynga has a strong inclusive culture and it can be very welcoming initially. You should always be learning at every stage of your career and you can definitely do so at the company - You can connect with some really cool people

Cons

- Pay was slightly below average and not always congruent/1:1 to your skillset and experience - Limited opportunities and typical corporate rhetoric/structure holds the company back from the next levels of success. Once you realize that you have no one really advocating for you to move up and or take on more responsibilities, you have to be honest about your future at the company. - Some management/teammates are egoistical and passive aggressive in their behavior towards certain employees and clear favoritism is shown. - The relationship you have with your manager will make or break your career, which is frustrating. If you have a manager that will look out for you/advocacte your career, you'll do fine. If you don't, you're stuck

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