Experiences of a former employee - Principal Software Engineer Zynga Employee Review

2.0
28 Feb 2018
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Pros

The food. The parties. The monthly show & tell

Cons

Was let go two weeks before one year's up, conveniently shutting me out of a chunky promised equity compensation. The people in my engineering and design team have cliques and after approaching to be friendly for a few times I was like why bother it feels very much like high school. The exception was the art team. After months of getting back on my feet I joined another Fortune 500 doing the same work but very relaxing. And they really value what I do unlike Zynga where my advanced experiences and specialties could not be utilized in the constant patchworks and code-debt. I've met another engineer with similar background I too see him doing somewhat unexciting work too. . It was a lesson that -From a person with over 10+ years experience in games

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Cons

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