Pros
- Getting a job a Gameloft is the easiest way for a person with non-technical background to enter the IT field. The recruitment process is a quite easy, the only real requirements being English and basic computer skills. - Somewhat flexible schedule. - Not very stressful. - Several decent benefits: Free coffee, free ice cream, fruits, chocolate, energy drinks and so on. - Recreational areas: Playstation, Table Tennis, Pool - Decent healthcare that gets better over time. - Overtime is paid twice as much as a normal working day. Helps you gain experience and adds a weight to your CV. - You get to know people of very different profiles, different backgrounds, different mindsets etc. And surely you will get to know some awesome people. - Local management is awesome. They care for people and strive to constantly improve themselves and the working procedures, even know it's easier said than done.
Cons
- Very low and non negotiable paycheck for the more skilled workers. Given the responsibilities you have when you start, the paycheck is decent, but fails to keep up with your skill level. - No interest from the company in helping the employee' skills. There is an overall poor employee retention strategy. Everybody is expendable and the top management will make sure you know it. - Broken promotion system. You may get to be the best tester in the building, but you won't get promoted unless you convince the Senior Project Manager that you're the one for the job. Even if you manage to do that (given the SPM isn't biased), you'll be put on the waiting list if there are no spots available for that position. Until an official promotion, you may get more responsibilities, but your paycheck remains the same. - Broken reward system. A performance bonus is given to the highest employee score. If you want to get the necessary score, you need to be the best but also know the right people. It's all or nothing. - Personal relationships usually interfere with the working process, and that leads to unfair decisions being made. - Although most people are decent, some of the persons you get to meet can cause real head aches. - Major communication issues between different departments ex: QA and Dev. Although they should be working together, most of the time, it's more like a fight between them. The company runs on a business model which allows it to hire inexperienced people on QA side. This leads to a high turnover rate, which determines the management to treat the QA employees as a highly dispensable. - Although you get a lot of experience in the field, you realize at some point that you don't make a real difference. That's mainly because HQ doesn't value QA's expertise the way they should.