Ganz reviews

- Upper management has a strong disconnect toward understanding what their employees do. - Upper management generally has no idea how to run a game studio as the majority of them have very little in way of experience. This leads to a lot of illogical requests, timelines and demands. - There's a lack of communication between different roles on a project. - Morale is extremely low due to several mass layoffs. - Projects are often launched without having been completed due to upper management's lack of organization and understanding of process; projects are often completely restarted half-way into production. - Hardware and much of the software is very out of date. - Salaries are well below industry average; directors often try to tell staff that there is no "industry standard", raises are small (1-3% cap, if at all) and bonuses are non-existant. - Benefit plans are designed for the warehouse workers, not for office workers; the company is too cheap to create two separate plans. The benefits are not horrible but they could stand for some significant improvement (ie: eye care is not covered). - There is a significant lack of documentation for projects; demands are often made straight from upper management and never recorded or thought through.

Management is extremely weak. People seem to get promoted to mid tier management for maybe the wrong reasons.(politics versus merit) Middle management really don't seem to do anything except for the occasional blame game. Pointing fingers is a way of life for management in this company. No one feels responsible for anything. Upper level management participates in pointing fingers as well and are generally too far removed from knowing what is actually happening in the company. Upper management tends to not listen to the issues presented by employees despite the fact that a majority of employees have similar complaints. Communication overall is very very poor. Frequently people don't know when their deadlines are or what their deliverables are. Neither do the producers/project managers. Morale is very low. Very good working level employees are laid off and useless people and middle managers aren't. There is currently just about a 1:1 ratio between people with management titles and just working employees. People feel beat down and don't know what their actual role in the company is.