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Pros
- "Everyone I've worked with has been awesome and good at what they do (a lot of them are now straight" (in 6 reviews)
Cons
- "However, management is doing their best to listen to employees and make positive changes." (in 10 reviews)
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- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Storm8 is an great company to work for. You really get a lot of flexibility to find the best solution to any problem, and the entire engineering team is amazing. Everyone is very supportive, and everyone helps everyone else to learn and grow. If at some point Storm8 begins hiring again, I would 100% recommend anyone and everyone apply. Your personal growth is only limited by your ambition and abilities. I went from engineer to lead very quickly simply because I wanted it and I really applied myself; and my efforts were recognized and awarded. Also, when things were good. They were really good. They took the whole company to Hawaii! And bonus's are amazing. Like my first bonus ever was over 30% of total salary.
Cons
Storm8 has been having trouble finding another hit success game since their initial success. We recently went through a massive set of layoffs and we're struggling to find something to really get behind and make amazing.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good place to learn software engineer skills Lots of teams to switch to
Cons
Games were not very innovative
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Work life balance was a priority and amazing perks.
Cons
Pay structure was wacky. Raises were low.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
love the people nice culture art is nice
Cons
no upward mobility within the company no salary increase
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
-Great people to work with, great art team -No investor capital, all self funded -Usually a quick and focused dev/production period
Cons
-Layoffs still happen because a company is a company no matter how it's funded
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Storm8 is full of friendly, talented people. They offer good benefits with catered lunch and dinner. The company is on an upswing thanks to their latest game finally cracking into what makes a successful mobile game in 2018.
Cons
Storm8's biggest fault is its dichotomy of thought. On one hand they want to make great games and push forward into the mobile market, and on the other they fear change and lack the courage and ability to take risks. Any risks. Almost every design decision is data-driven. The result is the company is stuck in an evolved-but-still-fast-follow mindset which makes creating original games impossible. Some of the company's most original design achievements occurred during the yearly hackathon, and those projects will unfortunately never see the light of day. Everyone at Storm8 is capable of doing so much more.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
The salary bands were good, as were the benefits.
Cons
There was little to no career advancement, and absolutely no faith placed in the creative talent. I watched some of the best designers I know get sidelined into disillusionment. Poor treatment of designers makes for poor products. Turns out one can not make a hit mobile game based on data alone.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Perks and meals, Snacks, games
Cons
Incapable management. Shorted sighted CTO Chak.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good benefits including catered meals, free healthcare, etc.
Cons
Clueless leadership and terrible process. Their resistance of new ideas and ignorance of market trends means this company can't make a good game to save their lives, and it's not because they don't have talented employees.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Working pace is flexible and game culture
Cons
Company vision is neither clear or promising
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Storm8 has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 118 reviews left anonymously by employees. 57% of employees would recommend working at Storm8 to a friend and 40% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.
57% of Storm8 employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Storm8 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Storm8 to be career development, benefits, coworkers and the cons to be senior leadership, management, culture.
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