Socialpoint Reviews

3.8

77% would recommend to a friend

(144 total reviews)
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Akshay Bharadwaj

89% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Socialpoint has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 144 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Socialpoint employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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144 reviews
1.0
8 Apr 2016

Worst experience in the industry.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The salary is decent for Barcelona. Benefits are interesting, especially for Barcelona.

Cons

First of all I want to start by these fake 5 stars reviews: you can smell so much it has been made by HR or PR people to boost the rating (cause yes, it has been 2/5 stars during more than 2 years and it may hurt to acquire talent. That's one of the points that leads me to write this review. If you start in the industry, Social Point can be an interesting starting point if you don't find anything else or if salary is your unique motivation. But if you have a bit of experience, I recommend to avoid at all cost this company: direction (at least for the 1 of the 2 I met) & Management team have no respect at all for what you could bring. They just already know everything. During recruiting session they will tell that they want to raise the quality of their games, hat they need senior profiles like you. But when you are in place, they will just tell you what to do without caring about you experience. The CEO and the managers are at the same time Art Directors and Creative Directors. Communication just happens through conflicts: the one who speak the louder is right. And the worse of it, is that most of the time, they take decision without even understanding the topic. Yes, I am sure you have seen this in other studios, but I made different places, and it is beyond anything you could imagine. For example, it has been hard for the CEO & the managers just to understand that you you don't make a 2D and a 3D game the same way, and that you actually have to model the objects rather than drawing them. But as management knows everything, you will have the same time budget for 2D and 3D assets :)) Another epic moment was the CEO saying in front of the whole company that people who left for the competition, mostly because of the constant crunch hours, were just "lazy". Another point: if you ask the opinion about someone inside, just be sure to know him well: each person who endorse a new employees gets a "thousands of euros" bonus (a good motivation to hide the bad side of this company) You get the point : I don't recommend this company (except maybe for programmers and analysts who seem more respected. For the other: you deserve better.

1.0
10 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

High chance of career growth, you will meet a lot talented individuals. The office being in Barcelona gives you high chances of finding a better job after some months working in Social Point and realizing how poor the current state of the company is.

Cons

Poor management. Poor HR. Poor direction. Most project owners have little to no idea of the game industry, and just try to mimic what good devs do e.g. "Oh, Supercell did this? Let's copy them". This is verified by the fact that in so many years Social Point only succesful projects have been copies from other games. But yet, even having such a large R&D department, they have not successfully launched a single title Even though the company tries to promote they are a "flat structure" without management, where all individual are equal game makers... False. In many years of experience, one of the most hierarchical companies you could find. Many "Leads" or managers have genuinely 0 leadership and management skills. They just got promoted to that role as a way from Social Point to keep them in the company by giving them a higher status and higher salary. But they lack those skills. And for more, just check more "cons" from many other reviews. Avoid those reviews that look "Good" saying everything is awesome etc... because they are done by HR. Hell, the culture of the company is so bad there is even a facebook group literally insulting the ceo's and management

2.0
14 Jul 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work life balance, perks

Cons

Leadership promotes a highly toxic environment, promotions are based on favour with the founders, not merit.

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