Pros
- Most people working there are actually super nice. - Perks are interesting for juniors, but salaries are lower than market in North America, meaning you'll be paid more pretty much anywhere else. - 100% remote.
Cons
- Huge culture change from "Making the world a better / happier place" to "creating the next multi-billion franchise". It's all about the money now. Ethics has officially left the chat. - "Company values" are used as propaganda and only championed by the employees. The Executive Team doesn't respect their own values (see the 2 points below for recent examples): - "We take care of each other": after laying off 25 % of the company, the CEO said that he will be personally available to help those affected, but he hid his LinkedIn profile for 2 days and refused to share a list of all the affected employees internally. - "We face the difficult fact together": during the layoff mentioned above, the CEO didn't even address the employees being let go to thank them for their contributions to the studio. Instead, he was busy giving a speech to the rest of the company on how everything will the fine and that "90% of the people responsible for the studio's success was still with" them, which is straight up insulting for those who were laid off. - The studios' new direction is to hire internationally in South East Asia to save cost and replace expensive Canadian roles. Those can also be fired more easily w/o legal repercussions. - Lack of transparency and white lies from the Leadership and the executive team. If there was any financial troubles, we were never made aware of it and operations never changed or adapted until it was too late. - The studio's newest project based around NFTs (that one legal and technological grey zone that nobody wants in the gaming industry and that brings no added value to society outside monetary speculation and price gouging).