Gameloft Reviews

Pros

Good Culture, Friendly with many event

Cons

Low salary and no other

Pros

good environment to work at

Cons

bad management to deal with

Pros

Fun projects to work on. Good people to hang out with.

Cons

Stressful parent company who I felt refused to listen to our issues.

Pros

great place to network and meet great coworker

Cons

Management lacks input and adds stress to your workload.

Pros

- Start up mentality with resources of a large company - Tons of responsibility and ownership to lead marketing strategies, branding, etc. - Top tier licenses to work with - Highly collaborative with production, art, etc. teams

Cons

- While there is more flexibility in marketing teams, the production teams are at the whims of the VP's approvals

Pros

Get to travel back in time and work with historic tools and tech

Cons

Poor portfolio of games completely lacking any foresight, research or common sense. (I wasted years of my life at Gameloft too embarassed to add any of their games to my resume.) Gameloft is easily 5 years behind the mobile gaming industry. - Outdated technology and tools lacking any foresight - Excessive micromanagement from HQ lacking any common sense - Salaries and benefits are way below industry standards

Advice to Management

Learn to keep your player’s first. Choose the right games for the right audiences. Stop trying to exploit 5 year olds with free to play mechanics. Stop trying to target core console gamers with midcore mechanics. Stop trying to clone everything without a basic understanding of why it worked in the first place.

Pros

None anymore studio closed, but the only reason to work there before was some industry experience and because the team was amazing. Work life balance was actually pretty good at the studio but most of the offices weren't that way/

Cons

HQ constantly directing each studio and forcing bad game decisions down to the dev teams. HQ refused to staff up the team despite the needs for projects and to let the studio grow to become successful. Pay is pretty low by comparison to the industry but HQ constantly denied that fact. HQ would put hiring freezes or pay freezes in place whenever they felt like it often delaying promotions or pay raises for employees...

Advice to Management

Stop getting in the way of your amazing teams and let them do what they know how to do. You actually don't know anything about designing games

Pros

Gameloft is aware that they need to be hyper competitive both structurally and creatively to be the top player in the industry. Since the Vivendi acquisition, it appears that all teams across the organizations are given a flexibility and ownership to improve. As for my team, we're growing and improving our efficiency and effectiveness since the management change.

Cons

Communication still feels distant perhaps because it's a big company with a lot of bureaucracy. There also needs to be clear vision and directions from the C-level to dictate a plan that moves this company into the next decade.