GSN was an amazing place to work at when it was in Waltham. The work was interesting and rewarding. The people were fun and passionate. The salary was great. Then the CEO decided that GSN should move its offices to Boston. We became GSN Games and we lost a lot of really talented people that didn't want to commute to Boston. Soon after arriving in Boston there were major shakeups in higher management and this lead to about 6 months of not having a roadmap. Everyone was kept busy with throw away work that wasn't moving the website forward. This lead to more frustration and many members of management were fired or quit.
When the CEO finally delivered the plan for the website it turned out that the plan was to not invest in a website any longer and to focus on mobile. In that same day, many of our most talented and senior members of the web team were laid off. A few other people on the bubble were sent to other parts of the company. The few, like myself, that somehow survived the culling were left to sustain the website that was being actively replaced by an outsourced team. The writing is on the wall and we're to be laid off when the new site arrives. Already many of the survivors on this team have quit and moved on to greener pastures. Everyone else is looking for a job and would prefer to leave on their own terms.
Don't come to GSN if you're looking for a web job. I'd say that other parts of the company look more promising, but seeing as how many of my friends and peers were recently treated and how they gutted a profitable part of the company with no warning, look for a job elsewhere. A great company would not have uprooted itself and moved everyone to the middle of Boston. A great company would not lay off its web team. You are an employee at will, nothing more. Go be something more, somewhere else.
