PlaytestCloud Reviews

inconsistent income with average to low pay

Don't be fooled by the number of employees or reviews, Playtestcloud is a team of 10-15 people. If you see any testers working for Playtestcloud they are actually not employed via them (anybody can download the playtestcloud app and become a tester but his doesn't mean you are hired, it's just a side gig you can apply for) . This is what fooled me and made me think that the company was much bigger than it is and was said nothing about this from management, despite I directly asked them. The company has been in the industry for many years, however acts like a startup ( I would say it still is a startup despite management says otherwise) employees have to cover for differet roles and not only the one they applied to. Even if the company is German, there is a strong American working culture where the "client (or management) is always right". Micromanaging is something normal within the company and makes things incredibly stressful. Many team meetings used to happen during the week and some of them looked a bit useless if not toxic.. I remember we used to have this "biweekly" call in which every employee had to list the good and bad happening in the company, however people got afriad to speak up about any issues as management used to react badly about it. So the call became a long chat of praising managers and talking about company accomplishments while keeping a lot of issues under the hood (like being required to make tasks that software developement was not able to solve). There can be a lack of work-life balance due to working with global clients and have either been required to work or have calls at 7am or 11pm. Salaries are low for the amount of effort required and bonus commission is baffling with such high targets.