ZeniMax Online reviews

Poor communication between departments. Decisions from US came down on us like hammers, and we had to cope without understanding. Terrible communication with HQ generally. We were basically working different processes for months. Once the mass hiring of agents for the launch of "The Elder Scrolls Online" was over, the mass firing began. People were fired without notice, tapped on the shoulder, kind of "don't forget to pay your cafeteria bill" and escorted to the exit, some of them long before the end of their contract. That was the time when the idea of a "Zenimax Family" became a big lie. Everything became more confusing with time, the freedom of taking PTOs on short notice and adjusting break times to personal needs disappeared, while new tools to control the agents were intruduced. Because the vast majority of the agents were hired by a staffing agency, there was no health care and no job security. Once you are a Zenimax Employee, things get better.

Office moved to new location, and they took away most of the perks to put us in a cube farm (actually it wasn't even cubes, just open floor plan). Management often has no idea what the organization is doing, and you'll get inconsistent answers depending on who you ask. Bad employees are seldom removed, and good ones often toil in obscurity. The work isn't interesting or meaningful most of the time, no one respects deadlines, and there's a general sense of playing at being a company, with very few people actually doing any real work. Employees do not appear to be valued at all. Single biggest complaint was that when I put in my resignation and two weeks notice, I was told that they accepted the former, but rejected the latter, and I was asked to leave immediately, with no severance. I would HIGHLY recommend, if you work here, not giving them any kind of notice before you quit, since they clearly don't respect it if you do.