-Promotions with no support or training.
-CEO is not knowledgeable in this field
-The rest of CSuit minus the COO have no prior knowledge of Games Development.
-They like yes-men, hate honesty
-They do not know how to prioritize what to spend their finances on-Multiple lay-offs, one included a mother on maternity leave. The first Layoff also included someone on leave after surgery.
-The studio would regularly hire out contractors even when there is someone in house who can do the work. This was the case even when in-house devs are waiting for more tasks.
-Often the work done by contractors is not used.-Games have no structured development, and when pivots are made production does not pause to reevaluate how to execute on a change, which creates a cascade of problems for each department and lengthens development time exponentially.
-A quote from a member of CSuite, “It’s not a Pivot if you don't write it down”.-In general anything not in writing will not be acknowledged, but also things there were in writing from Execs and Admin have no weight either.
-The studio claims to be anti-crunch culture but often programmers were made to stay late or work on holidays and weekends without pay or other forms of compensation.
-Games either get no attention from C Suite and have smooth development or get all of the attention from C Suite and become bloated with new features that C Suite requests every day, making the development time and therefore the cost of production balloon.
-The studio claims to value Women/Nonbinary members, but it was incredibly common for female/female presenting leads of departments or producers to not receive feedback on their projects from C-Suite. C-Suite would instead give that feedback to a male/male presenting member of the dev team even if they were not in the correct department to receive the feedback - in some cases not even on the project the feedback was for.
-The Execs liked to micro-manage people to a horrifying extent, going so far as to spend entire days literally standing over you as you work.
-You will NOT have any job security.
