Gazillion Entertainment Reviews

Cons

Foster City is a bit of a commute from the city. Aside from that, I really don't have any complaints.

Cons

Job insecurity was always a fear.

Cons

It didn't last long. I was only around less than a year before the company ended

Cons

Too many to concisely list, sunk by those at the top.

Cons

Doesn't exist anymore, company closed in Nov 2017.

Cons

Crazy atmosphere, meetings never start on time, lots of change always.

Cons

There's one review that likens the negative experiences working at this company to ordering food and not getting ketchup on the side or something nonsensical like that.
This person, like many others at this company, are the sole reason it's terrible.
It's become a cult of "well, sure they ask us to work 60+ hours a week, but we get to go to movies and put toys on our desks!"
That doesn't at all make up for the toxic upper management, the lack of professional demeanor in colleagues, and eschewing of formal methodologies.
This is your job and the place you have to spend most of your week at.
It should be as welcoming and pleasant as possible so you can be productive and effective at your choice of profession.

Before I arrived at Gazillion I led a massive, multi-team project at a multi-billion dollar company without a single issue or hiccup; nothing except humility, praise, and success.
I also worked as a lead on a game for a top 20 Fortune 500 company that had a budget that was at least 25 times the amount this company has spent in its lifetime.
When I got to Gazillion I was treated like a junior, yelled and cursed at in meetings, told exactly how to perform my job, and generally distrusted with every decision I made.
In some cases, upper management would wait until I left the building and would have engineers implement something without me knowing until the next day.
I politely brought this up to the person in charge who responded extremely aggressively, never looked me in the eye once, started rambling nonsense, and walked out of the room and down the hall still talking to avoid directly addressing me.
I just sat there in disbelief.
What else was there to do?

I once sat in a discovery meeting where a manager yelled for two straight hours to the point it turned into a temper tantrum the likes of which I've never seen from a grown man.
I was essentially mortified for this person.

There was an engineer who would test the game and then make user stories for things that this person thought should be changed and insert it into our Kanban. They didn't bother to ask our PM or ask if the changes fit into the roadmap. They just did it because they simply didn't have any formal training with real software methodologies.

These are just a few examples of the good times in store for you at Gazillion!
I generally was trying to help instill a more professional and modern method of working and was basically made to feel as bad as humanly possible for it.

In short, upper management are turgid, bullying, know-it-alls who refuse to listen to anything they find to be a differing opinion.
It was a nightmare and easily the worst place I've ever worked without a close second.
You've been warned.

Cons

Need to be available all the time when the dev team working

Cons

Extremely unfair and long work hours for artist. Artist work for about 10-15 hours/day while engineers work for about 5-10 hours/day, very different from other companies in the same industry.

Poor management consist of people who are fired from bigger companies like activision,riot,EA,ubisoft

Cons

Management. Couldn't find a bigger gaggle of idiots if you tried. Completely oblivious to the reality about the development of their game. Constantly forcing out bug riddled code due to not firing idiot developers. They can't hire good ones because this company has become a joke over the past several years. Not to mention, they simply don't have the money.

The only reason I'm still here is because I want to see what a company looks like when it goes under. I have connections at other companies and will be fine.

I feel bad for those who don't. Though, to be honest, the majority of them aren't competent....so they probably don't really deserve it.