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81 Ratings
Pros
"Free food, fun culture, good benefits" (in 98 reviews)
"There are many perks: free breakfast/lunch/dinner, onsite gym, wellness services, dog friendly, and much more" (in 38 reviews)
Cons
"Since it's a gaming company there's literally no work life balance" (in 62 reviews)
"Not player focused - Hard targets from upper-management pushes game teams to make games payer oriented" (in 40 reviews)
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"Junior Artist"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Zynga (Less than a year)
Pros
good pay for right out of school
Cons
they are kind of evil
Zynga 2018-04-25 01:46 PDT![Zynga Logo]()
"Localization"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Good benefits, free lunch, gym, and coffee/snacks. Working in a central shared services team means you're isolated from much of the drama of the studios.
Cons
Web-to-mobile turnaround has dragged on for a long time. Hard to replicate earlier successes.
Advice to Management
Try to get ahead of the next big thing so that you're not caught flat footed.
Zynga 2018-05-11 14:39 PDT![Zynga Logo]()
"fun place, interesting levels"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Zynga full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
entertaining place to work! lots of great perks including dogs, free meals, amazing health insurance, gym and fun company culture
Cons
very high job titles that don't match the level of work
Advice to Management
less upper management and more folks on the ground running
Zynga 2018-05-16 13:32 PDT![Zynga Logo]()
"Sr engg manager"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Zynga full-time
Pros
- great opportunities if you are eager
- good work life balance
- smart people
- lovely food and ambienceCons
- work in gaming teams can get repetitive for engg many a times
Advice to Management
keep striving to get more and more game IP created from studio I
Zynga 2018-04-22 07:09 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 PSTHelpful (1)
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"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 PST
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