OnLive Reviews

Former Employee – worked at OnLive full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Smart people, lots of energy

Cons – Executive management failed big time

Advice to Senior Management – Get a plan and stick to it

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at OnLive full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Some of the greatest talent I have ever seen. Some open to new ideas, others stuck in their ways.

Cons – Company was run into the ground with multiple, idiotic management decisions. In fact a good portion of the Ops team came as a group and then left as a group to move to another company when we needed them most. They all ditched to go work for a company that makes fancy thermostats.

Advice to Senior Management – Some management were rude and disrespectful to their employees. One person in particular would be Mr. M, we'll call him. Often shushing people mid sentences like they were dogs and ignoring co workers when they would even say hello. However the largest problem was at the top of the food chain. CEO made selfish, poor, egotistical and poor business decisions.

The product was great and with the right management it would have exploded. However that didn't happen.

HIGHLY recommended reading for the full story: "OnLive lost: how the paradise of streaming games was undone by one man's ego"

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at OnLive as an intern for less than a year

Pros – - Laid back culture
- Got to try out the games for free
- Nice office and free snacks in the break rooms
- Cool technology to be a part of

Cons – - Difficult to get up to speed with the inner workings of the company
- Poor documentation
- Not very good mentoring upon starting
- Tasks/projects not clearly defined

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at OnLive full-time for more than a year

Pros – OnLive's atomsphere created a family within the company. After all the layoffs, we all still keep in touch and are helping

Cons – Everything seemed a little sloppy in terms of organization, and a lot of employees were left in the dark about what was going on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at OnLive full-time

Pros – Brilliant, helpful, and gracious technical staff; fun culture; great perks and benefits. The underlying technology really is innovative and exciting.

Cons – Business model obviously wasn't viable; no reason to believe that restructuring will fix this. Frequent breakneck pushes to implement major new features with unclear, ever-changing requirements. The mass layoff was handled poorly.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at OnLive full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Fun, Challenging, on the edge. OnLive is high energy, very challenging, and create new on the edge echnology every day.

Cons – Short term direction only. As a startup, OnLive is chasing funding, this creates an environment where there is no long term direction at all.

Advice to Senior Management – Find a way to create mid term and long term goals for each employee, team, and project you areworking on.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at OnLive

Pros – Awesome to work for one of the most innovative (disruptive) technology in the Valley

Cons – The company has so many directions to focus on besides a game infrastructure. The full potential has yet to be realized but we need more manpower to do it. Still operates as small startup.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to do more to attract technical talent and take this company to the next level.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at OnLive

Pros – Incredible technology. Enginners who can make magic happen. Easy to get the hardware you need to do your job.

Cons – Senior managers are horribly randomizing. There is never a willingness to stop and ask what the costs are to these changes. And the engineers end up overworked and demoralized as a result.

This fish is rotting from the head.

Advice to Senior Management – Ask for feedback, take it seriously, and respond to it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at OnLive

Pros – OnLive was filled with amazing engineers. If you thought you were a genius coming into the interview process, you would be totally humbled by the time you left. But not in a bad way. In a way that made you want to work with those people. For a technical person, this was heaven! Many of the original brainiacs have left; having fully vested.

Cons – The executive management team is extremely dysfunctional. CEO is a very smart guy who micromanages and doesn't trust or respect his management team. Of course, most of the company doesn't respect the management team either. Arbitrary dates are set for product delivery and then changed multiple times due to a myriad of things like CEO wanting to add a feature, no time to QA so product not working, team died due to exhaustion. Take your pick. There tends to be a lot of finger pointing which is not the way to build/keep a healthy work environment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at OnLive

Pros – You'll be working with the best. These are people who not only are veterans in the industry, but have been significant contributors in the industry. It's a quality vs quantity type of crowd. You think you're good? This place will humble you down. Everyone's brilliant (even the interns and juniors).

Cons – As with any fast-paced environment, you have to be willing to be agile and change fast. But at the same time, you need to stand your ground at what's right. There are certain directives that make you go, "what the hell?" I think only the strong in this company will survive. If you are used to being pampered or spoiled by a corporate environment, you're going to cry here.

Advice to Senior Management – Management's ego needs to be trimmed down. This is a company, not your prom. Management needs to set aside their ego and put the company in first priority. There are some biz-side managers that don't belong here; they don't really have a good understanding of how the industry works. I hope they move on or get replaced.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend