Toxic working culture - Anonymous employee Nordeus Employee Review

1.0
8 Jul 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• A lot of friendly people. • Company provides phone & food. • Office space is really nice. • Healthcare.

Cons

• The company hasn't shipped a game in 6 years. • Management is made of programmers who don't understand other disciplines yet stand as judges for everything. • Producers are inexperienced and drive employee pro-activity down. • Nepotism is really strong. • Women are treated unequally. • Employees get fired regularly. • Foreigners get fired a lot easier than locals. • A lot of people just try to blend in to keep enjoying the perks without putting their job at risk. Creativity and communication inside teams suffer a lot from this. • 75% of the work force is junior with no experience in making games. • No clear career path inside the company. Employees move up through friendship with management. • The Feedback system is based on employees trashing each other rather than resolving issues. Employees try to be nice but management pushes them to be harsh to their peers which producers later use as leverage. Extremely disappointing. • Salary is high for Serbia but low for anywhere else in the West. • HR is good at organizing fun events but fails at core HR tasks.

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5.0
5 Oct 2015
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Pros

Great people and culture. The place is fun to work at and you are fully empowered to develop your career in the way it suits you best. At the same time you are working with some of the sharpest people in the industry, that have managed to build a game played by more than 100M people.

Cons

It's a one game company and some people might think the company's outlook is not that great and I expected the company to release more games. However, given the industry state, I feel like being patient is not necessarily a bad decision.

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Really great to hear your positive experience. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
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