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Frank Gibeau
73 Ratings
Pros
Free food, fun culture, good benefits (in 97 reviews)
Many non-cash benefits such as free breakfast, lunch and dinner; as well as, free starbucks style coffee (in 37 reviews)
Cons
Since it's a gaming company there's literally no work life balance (in 61 reviews)
Most of them just pander to upper management to make it look like they know what they are talking about and contributing to the project (in 40 reviews)
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"Amazing experience"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Learning every day, start up feeling, perks, interpersonal relationships etc a wealth of experiences and gains at multiple levels, including international travel
Cons
A few colleagues spend most of their time gloating about their achievements which amount to nothing. I could live with that despite being annoying however it was even more disappointing when senior managers valued those people and promoted them
Advice to Management
Value the truly hard workers and get rid of fake
Zynga 2017-11-04 13:43 PDT![Zynga Logo]()
"Fun place with old tech"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zynga full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Lots of perks
Free food
Great gym
Fun dynamic environment
Smart peopleCons
Old tech
Products are very money oriented, which is fine to sustain, but not fun to develop personally because those who make the games do not typically play the gamesAdvice to Management
Nothing particular, highly depends on the team. Current team is always willing to listen to ideas which is always good
Zynga 2018-04-17 16:12 PDT![Zynga Logo]()
"Makes work play"
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Positive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time
Pros
Great job perks and live ops work, impact driven, fun-product, great peer group
Cons
Frequent org restructuring, Should invest on building skills and career objectives for employees else they will leave for one (if not both)
Zynga 2018-03-09 09:35 PST![Zynga Logo]()
"Enjoyed It"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Great when things are going great for your game.
Cons
Gaming is a fickle business and if your game falters it will get cancelled.
Zynga 2018-03-09 20:07 PST![Zynga Logo]()
"Needs real managgment"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Zynga (Less than a year)
Pros
Great benes and free lunches. The breakfasts were terrible, but free.
Cons
The management seemed confused and kinda going through the motions w/ little results.
Advice to Management
Restaff
Zynga 2018-03-01 11:14 PST![Zynga Logo]()
"Fun place to work for the most part"
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I worked at Zynga full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Free food, fun culture, good benefits. I loved a lot of the people at this company. Feels like a scrappy start up at times, but the established franchises make for a good balance.
Cons
Even though most of the people were great, there were also a lot of massive egos. Many people were in management positions that shouldn't have been. You'll work really hard and may or may not be recognized for it. Depends on your team.
Advice to Management
Need a clearer promotional path. It seemed people were often arbitrarily promoted. I had never seen one learning or training in my 3 years there that set out any expectations for performance or growth.
Zynga 2018-02-21 13:13 PSTHelpful (1)
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"Experiences of a former employee"
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Doesn't RecommendNo opinion of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time (More than a year)
Pros
The food. The parties. The monthly show & tell
Cons
Was let go two weeks before one year's up, conveniently shutting me out of a chunky promised equity compensation.
The people in my engineering and design team have cliques and after approaching to be friendly for a few times I was like why bother it feels very much like high school. The exception was the art team.
After months of getting back on my feet I joined another Fortune 500 doing the same work but very relaxing. And they really value what I do unlike Zynga where my advanced experiences and specialties could not be utilized in the constant patchworks and code-debt. I've met another engineer with similar background I too see him doing somewhat unexciting work too.
. It was a lesson that
-From a person with over 10+ years experience in gamesAdvice to Management
The project failed to launch eventually. I could have sent something to alert the senior management on what went wrong with the middle management and the cliques even within engineering. But like victims of sexual assault I'm reflecting now that back then I shut myself after the experience. Only now by chance today I got a Glassdoor email about Zynga am I sharing a little of it now.
Zynga 2018-02-28 09:16 PSTHelpful (1)
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"UX Designer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Good culture. Good company. Good food.
Cons
Small studio team. Less connection with other peers.
Zynga 2018-02-02 11:07 PST![Zynga Logo]()
"Good job"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Zynga pays well and has good benefits. There's a lot of very talented people there.
Cons
Frequently heavy hours. PM driven company (maybe a positive depending on your point of view). Upper management is not good at picking the right games to develop. Your game may be cancelled prior to launch.
Advice to Management
Enable employees across all levels of the company to participate in solving problems and being a part of the creative process.
Zynga 2018-01-23 21:46 PST![Zynga Logo]()
"Gaining stability, less exciting opportunities"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Zynga full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
- Amazing perks: gym, food, parties
- Great culture - strong leadership/community of women, generally kind people, open atmosphere where you can bring up something if it's bothering you
- CEO Frank is someone who I trust to do the right thing for the companyCons
- Inconsistency across studios - cultures, practices, and goals are very varied across Studios, so it might be useful to meet with the team you are hired for before you make the decision to work at Zynga
- Business model is stabilizing but still not as good for future SF HQ
- Still lots of attrition - talent is leaving at a pretty steady rateAdvice to Management
- Focus on retaining talent
- Hire the right people
- Keep perks & culture rightZynga 2018-01-20 11:43 PST
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