Pros
The pros I attribute to this company dwindled over time. The coworkers devoted to their craft were always the best aspect, and when there was still room for collaboration and true innovation there was a feeling of pride one could take working at High 5 Games.
Cons
As leadership took a more authoritarian stance over the years and became more and more AI obsessed, the work culture took a nose dive. Teams were widdled down and most often laid off employees workloads were thrust on existing employees without increasing anyone's salary. Sevarance was secretly eliminated for all employees at some point post covid era. Top management insisted on AI being implemented in any capacity, but without any vision, direction or knowledge of how AI could actually benefit teams in the company. Employees are always under the threat of being laid off or fired, fostering a very negative day-to-day work-life culture. From a creative standpoint, they rarely, if ever innovated. The model was never to take a risk on exploratory concepts, rather to copy and reiterate on trends in the casino market and then releasing those regurgitated concepts months, if not years, after the original trend had come and gone. At one point, the game innovation team had a resilient ethos for creating new types of games and features, but that was eventually stifled by upper management's directive to increase production quantity which inevitably resulted in AI induced Slot slop.