Pros
Hardlight has a nice looking office and you are given good equipment to work with when you start at the studio. Even though it will be a hand me down from the upper management. Some of the staff in the studio are friendly and fun to work with.
Cons
The management make the staff feel worthless and openly complain about members of staff in the team areas. There is a real clique culture, with friends of the management being treated much better then other members of staff. The studio has a hire/fire policy with a number of the studio's staff being made redundant with no notice at all. There are no career opportunities at Hardlight, even as the studio size has grown, the management do not want the staff to grow with it. There is a real lack of creativity at the studio. Desissions are based off analytics rather then for producing high quality, entertaining and creative games. Both art and design are repressed as a result.