ProbablyMonsters reviews

- Sexual Discrimination goes unpunished - Repeated failures are allowed as long as you're a friend of the CEO - CEO's friends are on payroll & insurance for years but without any job responsibilities - The company shut down 8+ projects in 2024 and laid of most people working on them - unless you were a friend of the CEO, in which case they found new work for you. - Severance packages are tiny compared to many other employers (3-6 weeks) - They pivoted in 2024/2025 to smaller projects with outsourcing. They announced 2 of those games mid-2025, using the project leads names in their advertising. Weeks later they laid off those project leads (before the titles even shipped). - CEO doesn't believe in office perks (under the guise of not making work too comfortable so that you go home at the end of the day), so bring your own coffee machine! - In multiple years of my employment there literally every single conversation with the CEO (one-on-ones and group meetings) involved him sharing an anecdote about some previous colleagues failures, how he's smarter than everyone else in the industry, how Phil Spencer wishes he'd come save xbox, etc.

Executive leadership for a long time had almost no oversight of projects that drifted aimlessly for years. Then as the company started to run out of money, they snapped WAY to the other end of the spectrum and started hounding dev teams with monthly reviews where everyone's job was at stake, every time. Everyone wondering if their team was the next to get chopped. Not a great environment.