Big Fish Games Reviews

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Maneuvering around the Big Fish Games office in Queen Anne is exceedingly difficult with construction and traffic abound.

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Pay is ok, but raises and bonuses are a joke. No room to grow.

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Ageism does exist. Heard awful story from a manager about an exec who wanted an older employee let go simply because of their age. Got the feeling this person didn't report it out of fear and felt intimidated.
Boys club sometimes. Women need more promoting. Male managers at all levels don't know how to help women.
4 reviews every year for everyone. Number crunchers rule with iron fist. Personal growth/promotion is hard.
Might or might not recommend to a friend.

Cons

Terrible management.
No transparency. Decisions are made and enforced without insight.
Lately they've been firing a lot of long-tenured employees without explanation.

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Terrible management who create and sustain a toxic work environment by not communicating. Management is comprised of a boy's club who often don't listen to the women around them.

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The pay and raises are mediocre. Even if you move up to a different team and out of CS, they base your pay off of what you made in CS instead of the base pay for the position you're moving to.   At the end of my time there, I dreaded going to work because of the toxic environment. There's a lot of trash talk and passive aggression going in CS. It felt like I was back in High School, having to deal with Mean Girls.  There are only a handful of decent managers in CS. I truly believe if there was some kind of anonymous feedback system in place for management, that some of the god awful managers in CS would no longer be working there. There is so much favoritism going on when management positions open up in CS, as well as in the manager to employee relationship in CS, it's ridiculous. There is one manager there that frequently sleeps and snores  in meetings and at her desk, and while I don't know everything that goes on, I doubt anything has been said to her about it, because she is pals with upper management. When I first started, it was all about customer service, quality, and retention of employees as well as customers. Ever since the buyout, it feels like Big Fish cares less about employees as well as customer service, and more about "hit" games they can produce and make money off of. That's fine that you want to make money, you're a business after all. But it's a big and unfortunate change to experience as an employee, as it before I left, it felt like Big Fish cares about is making money, and that anyone is replaceable. This feeling is shared by many, as the turnover is high and job satisfaction is low. I know several employees that are unhappy and looking elsewhere, and trying to get out of Big Fish ASAP.

Cons

Inconsistent in regards to leadership. You could really feel the transition into a more corporate working environment.

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-Pay isn't very high, made up for in lax environment
-Times of slowness
-Developers are cross-country and not in-pay
-Organization can be messy

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They should be audited by the dept of Labor

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Company direction was not clear