King Reviews

Pros

Awesome Benefits, great people, yearly company get togethers are memorable and productive

Cons

Since the acquisition, King has lost some of the innovative streak that marked my time there. I hope that will change.

Pros

Great workplace environment, best I've ever experienced, it's awesome to be right downtown in Seattle. Insanely talented development team.

Cons

Timezone difference with centralized services can be a challenge. King leadership seems to be risk averse to a fault, making for a less diverse portfolio than the potential they have based on the talent.

Pros

International company with a diverse workforce. Great team/company culture/people. Incredibly transparent Lots of opportunities and challenges to grow Great location in SOMA neighborhood of SF, good commuter benefit and lot more.

Cons

If you are non-gamer that it could be a difficult place to work

Pros

The people - Lots of really smart and super friendly people. Great work life balance. Its strongly encouraged to get your work done in a 8hr workday and then turn off. Great senior leadership. Very accessible. Many of them have been there for 10+ years and are still very passionate. Great culture in general.

Cons

Some politics as expected from a company of this size.

Pros

There's a lot of trust in the game teams to make decisions on product and timelines. Teams are collaborative, well structured and 'office politics' are not tolerated. Cool office space with lots of perks, but the main draw for me is the people.

Cons

Communication with the corporate office is often slow because of distance and time zones.

Pros

Seems like King is really committed to investing in North America. New Senior leader of North American Games who sits in Seattle, seems genuinely interested in the people and what we are doing. We can finally see how the US ties into the rest of King. Also, it sounded like SF is going to grow a lot, excited to have more people in the US. -New games in Seattle -Good vibe -Great location -New teams in SF...we get updates from the studio heads in SF during a new North American call....which in itself is cool -Travel...we all get to go to Stockholm this summer!!!! -We have recently hired a bunch of new people, good to have more energy in Seattle.

Cons

Wish we had more day to day communication in Seattle. My team runs independently which is great, but sometimes it feels like separate studios since we are all so busy. Would be good to have clear studio goals that we can all understand. Saying we need to launch a game seems obvious, but is that really it? I saw the King goals at our CEO call but studio leadership has never spoken of them before or again. What happens when local leaders go to London...can you tell us why you go or what you learned.