Good for junior/mid - Programmer 11 bit studios Employee Review

Very talented and nice people are shaping amazing teams with a strong passion for making good games. Supportive HR which is eager to grow and be better results in a nice, friendly, and warm atmosphere. Nice intentions and visions for making meaningful games with new approaches to creativity.

Management, from directors to the board itself, has lost touch with reality and the team, wasting talented people's time and the company's money! One may say they got the good old God complex, triggered by their previous small successes which they seem to believe were huge! The board puts their old friends and old colleagues in unrelated positions to their experiences. Brotherhood is valued by the board instead of professionalism and skills. The communication from the top is horrible and non-transparent in almost every way. It clearly shows that the board and higher management don't have the skills and experience to run a 300+ people company! They overgrow their capacity and they're not hiring executives with the necessary experience to run rather big teams and companies. They may be good with running <100 people indie company and one project at a time, but with the current state of the company and projects, it is just a matter of time before the whole company fails and falls.

- free coffee and tea

extremely poor management - eternal protection of directors, even if they make the worst ever failures like not being able to hold the project together - regular coworkers pay the price of leaders' mistakes instead. The lower your position is - the more insecure you are in 11bit Project 8 had problems for many years, yet studio ignored them, as well as ignored warnings from the team and always kept all the decisions making to themselves, without consulting with the team. The project expectedly fell apart. The studio layed off 1/4 of the team one year ago, and a half of the team this year, including expats whom studio hired to the sinking ship and brought to Poland, and whose stay in Poland is fully connected to the job. They didn't even give people the opportunity to join other projects at 11bit, even though some layed-off people had offers from directors of other teams inside the studio, and some even already worked on other projects and recommended themselves well in those teams. Most of the actual decision makers instead kept their working places inside 11bit. The team basically fully payed the price for board's and directors' mistakes, even though many workers tried to reason with them many times, pointing out to the core project problems and offering solutions. Even though overall working atmosphere at the studio felt nice, I cannot recommend 11bit due to such a poor and disrespectful management