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3.2

49% would recommend to a friend

(15 total reviews)

Chris DeWolfe

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42% positive business outlook

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5.0
Oct 27, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

We make killer mobile games based on the best IPs in the world--what's not to love? I've been n artist at the company for two years and plan to stick around for the long-term. Stellar projects, great people and culture, good work-life balance, fantastic prospects for future success.

Cons

Office space is getting tight as the company outgrows its current office. Perks are good, but may be slightly less than you've experienced at other companies.

1.0
Feb 19, 2016

Pass

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Salary is above average - Company should be stable Not much else to say and Glassdoor requires a minimum of 20 words

Cons

- Management - High turnover, employees leave the company often - Office dynamics - Work load - Work hours, often working on the weekend and late into the night

1.0
Jun 1, 2015

Only if you're desperate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Dinners, large snack kitchen, happy hours. -Genuinely fun talented people. -Business dev brings in high quality 3rd party IPs to develop into games. -High turnover means someone new to games can easily get an entry level job here. Word of caution: leave before you think the entire industry operates this way!

Cons

-Game development pipeline is a disaster. Half of the middle and upper management employees don't know how to make a game, nevertheless a quality one. -Since the pipeline is poorly managed, developers have to put in a lot of unnecessary crunch. Employees who work really hard and leave at a normal time are intimidated by management about their 'dedication' to the company. -Any original gameplay ideas are quickly thrown aside in favor of making the exact same FTP city builder over and over and over again. -Employees who try and suggest how to make things better, even if they come from a good-hearted place, are brow-beaten and treated with suspicion. -Employees who fall from favor are actively treated horribly until they quit. -Random individual layoffs happen very frequently, with little to no explanation why. Moral is very tense, and this is actively being used by management to pressure developers into doing extra hours and putting off raises. -Raises are non-existent, even to employees that have been there for years. There is no system in place to reward employees for investing themselves long term in TinyCo. -Developers, especially artists, are severely underpaid. Artists are being offered salaries at the rock bottom of their market value, then are openly mocked by HR when they object. -CEO doesn't trust the talent he hires to make good products, micromanages. -There is a peer bonus system in place, originally created to reward people who do exceptional work. Now it is strictly abused by upper management to be only used as a way to unfairly compensate people who are (sometimes forcibly) working unpaid overtime.

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