Dying company led by poor CEO - Anonymous employee Storm8 Employee Review

1.0
2 Mar 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Easy access to 101 Free coffee

Cons

The CEO mismanaged the company resources and only produced a single, terrible game in 2016. Then when he saw he wasn't getting another $20,000,000 payday, he fired 130 of 250 people, all at the same time on the same day. He even pretended to cry during the layoff announcement.

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Pros

The internal Storm8 team was great. Management really cared about the product and how people on the team were doing. Opportunities were available for 2d artists to learn new skills like 3d modeling in Maya and Unity implementation. Overall culture was friendly and collaborative.

Cons

Storm8 is owned by Stillfront. Over time Stillfront became more involved with company operations, leading to significant cost cutting measures like taking over HR/finance, handing over art production to their other studios overseas, and laying off the majority of the internal US-based team.

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