MZ reviews about "manager"

Not good , toxic manager and culture

Lack of direction - company copies gameplay ideas from other games (Crystalborne) / adds on their outdated "pay to win" and "throw tons of content at them" formula for new games. No original content. Games perform poorly. Poor management - senior management used to regularly have 1-1 with everyone to collect feedback about managers. They stopped doing that and put incompetent managers into positions of power. Lack of processes (quality control, automated tests, etc) - 2-3 live incidents EVERY DAY.

Anyone who IS terrible (like some people I was forced to work with and under) had no checks for their behavior. It's almost like MZ just didn't plan to hire bad people, so there are no plans in place to address them unless they actually break a harassment policy. I was outright bullied by my team and my manager's advice was to QUIT and accept that I was replaceable, even though I was a dedicated and passionate employee who had been receiving constant praise for my contributions up til that point. And there was no one above my manager to bring an issue to without immediately branding myself as a weak link or tattletale.

Zero work-life balance. Everyone works long hours. Face time is very important. There is no WFH culture. If you're not in the office then you're not working. Expected to make quick decisions on unbaked data expecting to hit goals. Mismanagement in terms of comummunication and guidence. Managers and directors take all the credit. Unlimited vacation time but not allowed to take any time off due to workload or blackout dates.

Time off, even if approved, can be cancelled and forced into reapproval if the company is crunching for something, even unrelated teams, and a lot of pressure is sometimes applied to not take time off. "Core hours from 10am - 7pm" which means everyone stays later than they should. Not a lot of emphasis on fixing things that are breaking, just pushing out new things so there are constantly live issues causing some people to drop all their work with deadlines to handle what's breaking. Generally seems like there isn't a good sense of how to get out of bad months/quarters/years except to work the same people harder, which then leads to more mistakes.

Clueless managers, upper management never cared about employees

Executives in another state decide everything. Start up company going through growing pains. Several occasions of mass lay offs. Employees are dollar signs to be cut for profit.

- No transparency, no trust - Fear based motivation tactics - Lots of people leaving (a few rounds of layoffs and others leaving on their own) - Managers need training - Leadership doesn’t value their employees or their employee’s opinions (if you even suggest that there are better ways to do things, you are seen as weak and you are seen as a problem) - Work/ Life balance (expect calls and texts on weekends and late at night) - Terrible bonuses

I can't think of any at the moment. I'm happy at my job.