The Sinking ship with lack of any innovation for future and treat its employees like slaves!!!
Pros
1. Hired some bright minds long time back, few of them are still there. They really add value to the company. 2. The food is healthy and tasty. 3. Quarterly outings are good if they happen. 4. Even if you are part of any team you can understand and give your views towards the business of the games. 5. Some good outside speakers invited at times. 6. Get a chance to work and understand the gaming industry which is growing pretty fast.
Cons
1. The working conditions of QA Testers and Developers are really bad. They have to work long hours and are always under pressure. The product team thinks themselves as kings and just order randomly to do things in short time without proper vision and planning and with unrealistic targets. Most of them lack any technical knowledge and they just think about present without caring future sustainability and stability of product. There are no technical brain storming session with engineering just orders and deadlines. They at times come with last minute changes. The builds are also buggy because of this. 2. The UI team is really good but they are not given time and freedom to think good ideas and just enforced to copy from the competition and try to just change it. The same thing happens with design team too. 3. The condition of the technical team is pathetic. Yes they hired some of the good engineers but most of them left within months because the tech stack is really bad and they are not treated well. The engineer who works in Playsimple is simply degrading his skills. They don’t know how to write proper codes because there are no senior engineers in the company to guide and they are always in hurry and pressure because of product. CTO of the company is really humble and the only guy with good knowledge and care of the tech team but things are out of his control lately and he is at times helpless. 4. They have really degraded their hiring standards just to save money and hire freshers and interns( even straight from 3rd year) from Tier 3 colleges who don’t get proper mentorship and end up failing outside. Their mentors themselves are lacking proper knowledge at times. 5. The CEO of the company has a good knowledge about his field and his product but is a very bad leader. He treats people like his servants and tries to enforce his ideas even if they are bad. He acts like a complete dictator at times and doesn’t know how to talk with people. And when they try to leave he thinks that he can buy them with money. 6. Its said company culture was good 2 years back when team was small. The working hours were long but people were full of energy and enthusiasm and there were really bright minds around(Most of them left because of culture). But slowly culture went towards bad politics and unprofessionalism. The people just try to put blame on when one another and respect each other less now. Most of the people are all time insecure and stressed. 7. The appraisals are very average and not at par the time and effort you give. If you are from good college don’t expect much growth here. You will end up just getting false promises. 8. The most important thing is the product and ideas. Most of the games and features are just copy or rip offs of already existing ones. There is no out of the box thinking done while designing them. Again the idea is just to make money at present any how and not thinking about future of game or company. 9. The leave policies are pretty bad and its really difficult to take leaves at times even if you have an emergency with lots of explanations to be given. 10. The hiring and firing policy is pretty much there. Many people just disappear within a week. Although most of them leave with their personal choice as they are dissatisfied but there is no transparency. 11. There is no proper HR team(maybe because people say they were fired too) in the company that’s why lack of proper system. 12. At times feels like you are working in a shop but not for a tech company. 13. The seating arrangement is changed for people every now and then. Its CEOs pass time actually. And also people who serve notice period are treated bad.
