Big Fish Games Reviews

Pros

Work with fun, talented, and driven people

Cons

None. Upward growth in parent company if run out of room in local

Pros

- Good benefits, PTOs, wellness Fridays, Lyra healthcare - Small and transparent company - Focus on employee wellness, diversity and makes efforts for inclusitivity - Great opportunity to learn and voice out your opinions - Fully remote options

Cons

- Slow growth - Sometimes due to fully remote culture, difficult to make connections ate work and learn

Pros

Good culture and environment for employees.

Cons

Nothing much to say about it.

Pros

Nice people there to work with

Cons

Not great pay and growth

Pros

You can tell Big Fish cares. While they're not perfect, they are trying to do the right things and will do their best to address problems. I appreciate the transparency from leadership and how they choose to overcommunicate rather than undercommincate. The People & Culture team, especially, really cares for their people and advocates for them. Remote work is great! Having half-days on Fridays has been a game changer. Their 12 free sessions for counseling/therapy also means a lot. The support for inclusion and the queer community is also great. I think you see a lot of comments here about layoffs, bad leadership, etc. This was during a time when Big Fish was going through a lot of change. It's left a bad taste in their mouth so everything is filtered negatively. For those who joined Big Fish post-pandemic and remotely, it's been wonderful.

Cons

The medical, dental, and vision benefits could be better, but I wouldn't say it's bad. Give Big Fish a year or two, and we'll start to see some really great change especially with the amazing new President.

Pros

Good work culture at the team level Supportive direct management that is willing to be flexible Good health benefits Good ethics around not enabling crunch culture

Cons

Do not expect to get cost of living increases to your salary - many employees have not gotten meaningful increases they would need to offset the increasing costs of living in the Seattle area. Do not expect honesty from upper management - in the realm of salary, after not providing adjustments to match the current inflation in last year's adjustments, employees were told that the company was gathering information to readjust job titles and compensation to industry standard. We were told that we would be hearing about next steps in a couple months. This did not happen, and we were continually asked to wait until this process was complete to further inquire on the subject of compensation. Now, most of a year later, they are walking this back - they have elaborated that there will be no company or department wide adjustments, but are assuring people that they will look at individual cases but are also not providing a timeframe for when this will occur- and also stating that this was NEVER meant to be a company wide adjustment despite implying otherwise several times in the past. Do not expect to advance in a way that benefits you- the company will encourage learning new skills and taking on new responsibility, but you will see resistance to any attempts to gain new titles or increased compensation to reflect your new responsibilities. The company is interested in obtaining expensive skills at a discount. If you do work here, take your new skills and use them to get a job somewhere that will reward you. That's what everyone else does.

Pros

Amazing culture. Everyone loves to work here and people value one another. It’s an environment based on fun and pride in the work. It really is an amazing and healthy environment to work in.

Cons

Unless you’re in a technical role, you won’t make enough to live. This company is in a high metro area where the recommended in come is $80K to live comfortably in a one bedroom apartment. Try living on half that and see how well that works.

Pros

Big Fish is a special place where I have seen my work impact the business. It's easy to roll up my sleeves and take on meaningful projects. The leadership team provides the right amount of transparency and doesn't shy away from tough questions. The president's weekly emails are honest and helpful in giving insight into the business. Wellness Fridays are the best thing ever! It's so helpful and really helps with the work/life balance.

Cons

The company is evolving and there are growing pains that come with change.

Pros

The name keeps attracting good people.

Cons

All the people who knew how to make good games have either left or were laid off. As a result, the company lacks institutional knowledge and has lost invaluable collective experience. Treatment of employees by the upper management is plain bad. Salaries are below the industry standards. Lack of culture. Lack of transparency.

Pros

Most of the people were pleasant to work with.

Cons

The cons are politics and old tech