Zynga Reviews

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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

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A lot of belt tightening at the exec level feels at times that the impact at the people level isn't being taken into full consideration when benefits and perks start to get slowly chiseled away, whether that is scaled down culinary breakfasts (we notice) or continued consolidation of workspace areas. Can feel a bit at times we're driving towards shareholder value as opposed to employee happiness. Working in games isn't enough with the cost of living in the Bay Area and the competition for talent isn't confined to games, everyone is a competitor. A bit of work an honest day and get the heck out asap culture - that needs to change. If employees wanted to stay after work and game and hang out, they would and needs to get back to that place.

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Very much a top down driven organization with leadership dictating decisions without proper context.

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Wildly different per project. My team is a boys club at the top. One regime was ousted to allow for a new dictator who filled the high paying ranks with his buddies from outside the company and bootlickers. Their mission is efficiency for the sake of efficiency. You will be granularly nitpicked every hour of every day. Management expects you to go above and beyond (i.e. not in your job description) at all times with a slim chance of being rewarded for it. My manager doesn't care about my career, will not invest in programs to strengthen my capabilities, and actively blocks attempts to laterally move to other projects with clearer career paths by making veiled threats to their leadership regarding "poaching." Management reviews were taken away around the time the regime changed. Reason given was "of course people don't like their managers, it isn't valuable to constantly get rid of managers because of few salty employees." It is evident that management has no idea how to run a review cycle or what to do with that data, aside from telling people that they aren't doing their jobs when they aren't consistently over-achieving. You will do well here if you had over-bearing parents who criticized you for getting As instead of A+s.

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Meaningless work, leader is narcissistic

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Web-to-mobile turnaround has dragged on for a long time. Hard to replicate earlier successes.

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they are kind of evil

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very high job titles that don't match the level of work

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- work in gaming teams can get repetitive for engg many a times

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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 games