All the pros and cons of working for a big company - Anonymous employee 2K Employee Review

4.0
Dec 23, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

All the perks of working for a large corporation (matching 401k, health plan, enrichment classes, snacks, well-organized company events). Dog-friendly. While no one works remotely, they do support VPN and smartphone profiles to access work emails through your native email app. Sounds trivial, but it takes away a lot of friction. Situated next to a wetland restoration area with trails for running. Reverse commute from SF (north bay has the only true "reverse-commute" left in the bay area) is really nice.

Cons

Individual studios within 2K are treated like separate companies, no sharing of ideas or resources. Every team is reinventing the wheel. While individual studios have a more "small team" feel, we still encounter the red tape of being in a big company. No self-evaluations during annual reviews. You don't always get asked to review your manager. During company holidays, hourly employees don't get any PTO (not even pro-rated) if they worked an average of less than 30 hours a week. There is one cafe in the building complex that has some bizarre monopoly, preventing other businesses (even food trucks) from selling directly to customers. To get around this, 2K has its own "menu" of 5 meals that it orders from 2 places a day and then sells the meals back to us. And once in a while it pays food trucks a lump sum to distribute meals for free.

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5.0
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Pros

My team and colleagues were great, everyone in office is friendly

Cons

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1.0
May 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Congratulations on joining an IT department sustained primarily by optimism and certificates whose expiration dates invite reflection. Tickets enter a triage process best described as ceremonial — acknowledged warmly, processed philosophically, resolved at the discretion of the universe. Infrastructure decisions suggest a confident autodidactic energy that formal training might have tempered. Your recommendations will be received, appreciated verbally, and composted with dignity. The company charges a premium for its products and charges again for the remainder of them, which is either visionary pricing strategy or a personality trait depending on your tolerance. The gaming chairs are ambitious. The retention numbers are instructive

Cons

• Your labor props up a machine that monetizes joy incrementally until joy is gone • Every unresolved ticket is a monument to institutional indifference • Heidegger called it thrownness — you were thrown here specifically • The infrastructure will outlive your dignity but not your burnout • Mark Fisher already described this place in Capitalist Realism and did not recommend it • You will achieve nothing that compounds • The servers go down. You stay down longer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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