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Wonder Works Studio

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No job security, Terrible leadership - Developer Wonder Works Studio Employee Review

1.0
16 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Free snacks, free catered lunch once per week, standing desks, some covered parking, every other Friday off, amazing coworkers.

Cons

Management has no idea what they're doing. They provide 0 job security, and have conducted multiple mass layoffs and firings. When you are fired they will provide no reasoning. They will fire you over a holiday break, they will fire you if you're on maternity leave, they will fire you if you've been there for years and have plenty of experience. Do NOT work here. They're prepared to let you go in an instant. Executives don't have much idea of what their employees actually do. They don't listen to suggestions, timelines, or progress updates. They will add new features to a game late in development that directly contradict work that has been going on for a while. After demanding new features they will complain about how long it takes to develop, and they'll be surprised when the project eventually fails on release. They poorly follow trends on the platform and don't know how to achieve success. They hire contractors who frequently submit poor work, leaving in-studio employees to redo the outsourced tasks. There is little room for career growth and upward mobility unless you directly befriend the CEO and cater to his every demand. Promotions are only given to his "yes men". There are also drastic pay discrepancies between employees, whether in the same department or not. They also don't support work from home at all, for any reason, BUT they will allow employees to crunch and keep working on projects outside of work.

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5.0
4 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

• the people there are so talented • catered lunch • opportunities to work with big brands • people grew fast! people who I worked with got promoted to management positions pretty quickly which is pretty hard to do in other companies. • holidays off and had a week off during the summer which was pretty cool.

Cons

• some departments were being stretched thin and had to wear many hats which some couldn't handle the stress but it does happen a lot with big tech/ gaming companies • people were toxic and they spread misinformation which would cause confusion about projects. The office became so overwhelming because people were constantly complaining, bad mouthing and just didn’t have the best moods. People would walk around with bad attitudes when being asked a simple question and it wasn’t upper management. • this company is so public because of the founders and the hate and misinformation spread from people is so wrong. Don’t believe everything sour people say on the internet.

3
2.0
13 Oct 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

team atmosphere is mostly positive.

Cons

upper executives could care less about individuals on the team.

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