bad - 3D Artist GIANTS Software Employee Review

It paid my bills and funded my hobbies.

A Masterclass in Toxic Leadership and Career Stagnation If you value your career, avoid this company at all costs. The environment is suffocated by extreme unprofessionalism, blatant favoritism, and a deeply paranoid executive team. The Worst Offenders: Paranoid & Manipulative Leadership: In a deeply disturbing breach of professional boundaries, the CEO actually sent "spies" to the parking lot to monitor what cars employees drove—using this to justify suppressing our salaries. Furthermore, executive leadership completely abandoned the company's fourth office, providing zero support or direction for three entire years. An Echo Chamber of "Yes Men": There is no room for actual talent, pushback, or innovation here. The workplace is plagued by proximity bias and overrun with sycophants who refuse to challenge bad ideas. This spineless culture is actively destroying any chance of genuine company growth or internal success. Zero Progression or Financial Transparency: There are absolutely no advancement opportunities. Worse, there is zero clarity regarding raises or bonuses. The compensation structure is deliberately opaque to keep employees underpaid and in the dark. Bottom Line: This place is a dead-end run by a paranoid CEO and a team of enablers. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

- Ownership. You can work freely and autonomously. Generally, your expertise is trusted, but you are given direct support when needed. - Colleagues were fantastic. Although serious in terms of output, the social aspect of the company was excellent. A community feeling. - Quite a wholesome franchise, which presents unique challenges and experiences.

Wages: - Terribly misaligned with other game studios. Some departments even received minium wage. Only does a junior position make sense at Giants. Get in, get out. Experienced professionals would likely never accept the salaries offered within production/dev teams. - Awful and illogical pay structure for junior, senior, lead positions. In one instance, a new intermediate employee was given a higher salary than their own Lead. - There are very little studios in the area to compete with, so this is leveraged to exploit . Not happy with salary, even if it can clearly be benchmarked with other transparent game companies within EU? Oh well. Even if you excel. Stay or go. - No relocation support. Overtime exploitation: - Exploitative expectation towards overtime. In some disciplines there is an expectation to work unpaid overtime. - Renumeration for overtime is 'promised' as part of the end of year bonus which, for the most part, is laughable. - Overtime is not officially documented by the employer. Apparently, this goes against the regulations within Germany, but Giants is willing to pay the fine if spot-checked. Uneven working enviroments between company studio locations: - Swiss office (Headquarters) )has an in-house chef, on-site free gym, and better equipment (height adjustable desks). No substitues for these office benefits are available in their other studios. Tech: - You generally will not interact with industry standard game engines/tools. Always good to adapt to custom engines, but the scope is greatly reduced compared with leading engines. - Limited technical capacity means the gameplay development of the franchise goes very slowly. - Not comparable to AAA development. In many areas, the franchise falls very short in terms of technical achievements. If you are seeking to work on the frontier of gaming technology, this is not the place. Communication: - Good luck. Management & CEO: - German Studio Manager was great. - CEO has my complete dissaproval.