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4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,336 total reviews)
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Jim Ryan

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

PlayStation has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,336 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The PlayStation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Nov 8, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great educational, medical and transportation perks - Great bonuses and employee discounts on PlayStation and Sony products - Lots of opportunities to travel overseas, particularly to Tokyo or London - Supportive leadership that lets employees explore different career paths and grow - Passionate coworkers who love gaming and are really into what they are doing - A low-conflict environment with a strong drive for consensus and respect - Agile development practices with continuous improvement, hackathons and quick adjustments based on lessons learned - Work from home opportunities in the U.S. and management focused on results, not attendance - A quirky and creative environment typical of the gaming industry - A company that encourages playing games at work - A very approachable CEO and most other top leaders - Lots of women in leadership positions, even in Japan (mostly up to Sr. Director level but also some VPs)

Cons

- Incompetence is sometimes tolerated indefinitely, true to the life-employment model of Japan - Managers frequently lack the most fundamental people management skills and don't know how to motivate their employees - Lack of open conflict leads to a lot of back-channeling, politics and having to read between the lines - In the Tokyo office, expectations about work hours are insane and no one can work from home, which leads to female workers still largely being forced to choose between having career success and being single, or having a decent but unimpressive job at PlayStation and having a family - The super-Agile style of the San Fransisco office frequently clashes with the Waterfall thinking of Tokyo - As of 2018, analytics is still not a big part of decision making and a lot of product managers are weak - Employee performance management is unpredictable and convoluted. There are no company-wide OKRs and it's hard to understand how performance goals are measured

1.0
Sep 29, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and benefits, nice perks, decent office, Starbucks, cafeteria.

Cons

Toxic culture all around. Ex-Intuit leadership uses bullying, intimidation, and public humiliation to strongarm people into their ways. Japanese culture is typical hierarchical, micromanagement, imitation of your superiors, rule following, and don't color outside the lines to command and control the staff. The result is there is no leadership at Sony because the focus is all on managing down to control the Engineers and tell them how to do their job. To add, since the Japanese culture is robotic and lacks human empathy, they do not understand or recognize the criticality of soft skills and human interaction in business leadership, so tend to make poor business decisions and hiring decisions.

1.0
Jul 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are great for the most part, everyone buckles down and gets things shipped when crunch time, and nobody gets on our case when there's a light workload.

Cons

I hadn't heard of a real firing for years, but now it's rampant. Demotions are all the craze these days, the atmosphere from we're getting from the top is that they don't care about us. They fired our scrum masters, I have yet to meet one person who thinks this was a good decision - everyone agrees that it sucks. The bureaucratic nonsense is frustrating - copy everything from one website and place it to another site to show other people who don't like looking at the first site. This new crew is causing gossip where there was very little before, they are scaring everyone away and there is no end in sight, and no positive gain either.

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