Pros
- OT Dinner is free (up to a certain stipend) Yes, GAMEVIL will pay for your OT dinners if you end up doing OT (which people end up doing a lot) - Can learn some things about working in the game industry GAMEVIL can be a stepping stone for some people to break into the game industry. - Some people are great to work with This is a pro, but its one of the few "pros" at GAMEVIL - HR tries to make employees feel like the company cares about them HR genuinely tries to listen/ plan events to make employees feel as if the company cares about them. This makes up for some (but not all) of the low pay. - Business Trips Can be exciting if you like traveling
Cons
- Upper management that doesn't care Upper management doesn't care about its employees or the high attrition here. There are very few people at GAMEVIL who have stayed there for more than two years, and they are people in higher management positions who have been with the company since ground 0 (about 5 years ago). Upper management encourages new hires to think of the company as a "stepping stone" and doesn't seem interested in retaining talent. - Lack of processes GAMEVIL has a speed-oriented work culture. The quality of your work doesn't matter, as long as you can push your workload out of the pipeline. This would make sense if management had a practical system in place to measure everyone's performance, but no such thing exists. As a result, people measure each other's performance through things that shouldn't matter, like how early (or late) someone comes/ stays in the office. There's lack of processes for most teams at GAMEVIL. Some of it is due to high attrition, and others are due to the lack of coordination between the Korean and US GAMEVIL offices. - Asian Corporate Culture GAMEVIL is a very Korean company. Though it isn't as bad as some other Korean companies I've worked for, it is still quite hierarchical. There's a lot of politics involved behind the curtains. The US branch is basically a satellite for the GAMEVIL HQ in Korea, so it is very difficult to start ideas for processes from the US branch and get them implemented for the whole company. - Understaffed GAMEVIL is very understaffed. - No inclusivity GAMEVIL is 95% Korean. Korean is spoken in most public areas, even when employees who don't speak the language are present.