Crytek Reviews

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I didn’t have any working there

Cons

Pay does not match the work load

Cons

We lost many good people but still have enough people trying to turn things around. Reading other reviews is sad as we have people writing the reviews that are unhappy with the situation but also not in the position to get all information from upper management. Which is normal! This is how business work. Still, the current atmosphere is tensed. It will be better. And yes, if you need help you have to ask - sometimes twice - as these are difficult times for everyone and every department. So cut your co-workers a little slack. If you show commitment, it is always rewarded in the end (whereas: not by more paid days off or money. Sadly). So big con: Not enough vacation days! 24 should be minimum and would definitely lighten the mood.

Cons

The company is managed horribly. Take a look at the recent bad press and realize that everything being said is true. For a long period, Crytek stopped paying its employees and just kept saying "Thank you for your loyalty as we move through this difficult time." Any company that can't pay its employees on time is a company you don't want to work for. There's also been a mass exodus of talent that's going to really hurt Crytek's ability to put out quality products.

Cons

Those same amazing people are being horrendously abused by the owners (the Yerli brothers). Pay hasn't come on time, to all studios worldwide, and this has been occuring on and off since at least 2014, and I've heard of it having occured for years before that from longer-term employees. When they can afford to pay everyone, they have been known to re-coup the missing pay, I'll give them that much. The problem is that they tell people everything will be fine by "this date" or "that date", which really means - this is the day they expect to hear some new about some deal they have going on. Those deals often fall-through or get re-written in different language, people can't survive not knowing when they'll get paid or not. The terrible thing is the owners will lash back out when employee lash out about not having received pay. They'll suggest that employees should have saved their money better to survive the turmoil. Ridiculous. See advice to management below:

Cons

No negative parts. I highly recommend this company!!

Cons

-office is located not as comfortable

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The culture here seems to be of positivity at all costs even when things are obviously going wrong. In this environment manipulative people with a rat-race mentality tend to thrive. There's little space for quality. - Promoting incompetent people to key positions because of friendships or relations with the company owners, which directly cause disastrous consequences (IT falling TWICE in repeated succession to a ransomware attack by the same group, and having backups from months before) - Chain-promoting juniors to lead positions because of needing to fill a leadership hole - Rewarding people that stay positive and don't raise issues and punishing those who raise issues - Rewarding narcissistic or manipulative, behavior by key managers - Putting people that are conflict-averse in key management roles, where they are naturally unable to deal with or mediate conflicts or disagreements between employees

Cons

Management can not agree what color sky is

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Minor cons as - Sometimes the information flow from management to employees is not clear - For a software engineer, you must expect a decent game programmer salary; it's not a bank - Hardly any bonus