What are perks and other benefits like at CD PROJEKT RED?

Pros

Over the years I saw how the company has grown and wants to continue to grow. Good salary, good benefits, diversity. It’s a place where you can be yourself and with a good lead grow as an employee and a person. Their fight with crunch is genuine. After the transformation the process of creating games changed for the better by a LOT.

Cons

Everyone makes mistakes but CDPR tries really hard to learn from them and not repeat them so none. The most important thing is that if you see something “wrong “ you need to speak up. No one is all-knowing and sometimes someone else needs to tell them what is wrong.

Advice to Management

Continue to listen to your people

Pros

* very talented and dedicated team * the company is driven by a great vision * well designed studio and really nice benefits (in HQ rather, not in the other locations)

Cons

* sometimes too messy and chaotic in terms of strategy and plans

Pros

Casual atmosphere. Great campus & dog-friendly office with a good gym. Good benefits if you are a Polish resident/citizen.

Cons

HQ canteen is barely ok. Almost zero career development. Training is only for upper management; some departments don't have a budget to function. Nepotism. Several directors and upper management at the company are there because they are/were friends of board members or similar cases. Diversity & Inclusion strategy: literally hand-picking the handful of non-Polish people at HQ and asking them to pose for shooting/interviews to boost employer branding. Every plan is US-centric, with no real international vision or strategy. Directors don't get to train people, and seniors are promoted when they threaten to leave. Pay is ok, but this highly depends on the role/team. No salary transparency at all.

Advice to Management

Play more video games, empower people who are skilled at their job, and listen to feedback. Learn from your mistakes and hire competent people, not fanboys.

Pros

Poland is cheap and Polish people are very kind. Cdpr has lots of benefits when it comes to health care, fitness, food and occasional gifts

Cons

Some teams still speaking only Polish. Mismanagement and chaos is the overall ambiance of the company. Don’t expect to feel to feel valued.

Advice to Management

Hire better art directors who can actually “direct” Value your employees and their work. Hire people better at communicating especially in English.

Pros

Career opportunity after you left.

Cons

No career/personal development, hence no clear career path, hence even if you are great, and perform great, you will always have to wait for those 15 months (if you are lucky) to get promoted, if you want something you have to ask or find another offer from a company and then you can negotiate something (same does not apply for management). Salary it's a joke, if you don't get promoted fast you will always have an irrisory wage for the tasks that you are asked to perform (and even once you get promoted is still under the industry standards). "Directors," think to be superstars.... but they do only their interests. Bonus it's a joke even with the new guidelines. Perks are just not existent (only the gym card maybe) please don't count: food, parties, and so on and so forth as perks because they are not...... are just smoke in the eyes for the newcomers They wanna compete with other top companies in terms of perks and benefits and wages. They don't even plan to have a pension scheme....... or fair contracts (which you currently have in one of the contract choices, but you will have to pay so many taxes that will eat your wage up, hence it's not a way to go if you wanna live comfortably). Last but not least Poland...

Pros

excellent work culture , lots of benefits and added bonuses (both financial and non physical)

Cons

Top in the country therefore if need to development must look for job abroad

Pros

Working on cool projects and learning opportunities.

Cons

Salaries and benefits are definitely below industry standards.

Pros

Health benefits Salary Projects Nice team members Good HR Hight culture A lot extra benefits, gym, presents, parties, great kitchen

Cons

Crunch time Long hours during crunch

Pros

Cool projects Cool people Some benefits

Cons

Still production first, people later Annoying tools to work Mediocre salary Low career oportunities

Pros

- great people, - good working atmosphere, friendly and supportive, - job is stable, there are people working for more than 10, 15 years, - many different projects.

Cons

- poor benefits but I believe it can be better, - "old" workers sometimes have flies up one's nose.