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      3.5

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (45 total reviews)

      Clark Stacey

      77% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture and values

      3.6

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      WildWorks has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WildWorks 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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      45 reviews
      1.0
      21 May 2017

      Stagnant, unstable studio

      Developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      It's hard to tell the pros anymore. There used to be a commitment to employee well-being and a sense of stability.

      Cons

      A management coup happened last week. The founder who built the company was fired. At the same time, they fired 13 otherwise valuable employees, perceived as too loyal to the old founder. Understand that all reviews posted on Glassdoor prior to 5/14/2017 were under the leadership of the old founder. WildWorks is no longer the same company. In day-to-day terms, work is fractured between several small groups who hardly communicate with anyone else, and the level of frustration and political bureaucracy for a relatively small company is ridiculous. Post-coup, the remnants of empowered technical leadership are laughably unqualified. The treacherous executives and their cronies not only don't mind this state of affairs, but created it to give cover to their plots. They've conspired for years to remove the company's founder from power and block out the employees who had built the company from the ground up, replacing the company's core with image-obsessed cargo-culters. This is only the first round of layoffs. Expect more. Anyone not currently associated with WildWorks should not be fooled by the skeleton of the company that once was; the new boss will attempt to keep this up, but the heart has been gutted. Getting involved with this company now is a tragedy.

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      WildWorks Response
      9y
      There were three original founders of WildWorks, and it is correct that the company’s investors recently removed one of the co-founders from the management team. It is not uncommon for the board of directors of a successful startup to prepare for the next phase of growth by replacing some early-stage managers with executive skillsets appropriate for growing larger companies. WildWorks is still led by the same CEO, CFO, and head of development that have presided over its past five years of growth and success, and it is positioned to continue growing with exciting new IP in development by the world’s greatest kids digital entertainment team. We are a stable, profitable company that is equally dedicated to providing a great creative work environment to our employees as we are to making great games. Over the past 14 years, we’ve lost vanishingly few team members to internal restructuring or performance deficiencies. We regret that there are evidently hard feelings with this former employee, but we wish them and all WildWorks alumni continued success and creative fulfillment in the games industry.
      2.0
      23 Jun 2020

      risk averse company with a lot of problems

      Developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      -work with amazing talent -a huge passionate audience that is really fun to create for -used to have no crunch

      Cons

      -lack of respect for the audience. an attitude of shame for making 'girl games' -extremely difficult for women to get credit or move up at all -rampant nepotism -will always give in to conservative forces within company -almost 100 percent white in a very diverse city -speaking up is punished -they employ openly alt right people -when company loses money they make workers suffer for it with mandatory crunch -the company has been slowly downsizing so not sure how long it has

      3.0
      23 Oct 2017

      ASR

      Asr
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Easy job, great flexibility with hours. Fun job.

      Cons

      Very disposable, they hired too many moderators, then laid off the majority of them. The laying off was done very unprofessionally and cowardly. You were blocked from everything, including the chat program before you knew you were laid off. Then a short email came saying you were no longer needed. When I tried to respond to the email in repsonse, I found out that my email had been blocked as well so I haven’t been able to communicate with them at all. Very frustrating and upsetting way to be let go, especially after all of the talk of what a great community they try to maintain. They could have at least reached out to the employees personally.

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