Techland Reviews

- most of the time you get no feedback, unless you are extremely lucky to get a nice manager - a lot of people act as professionals while they have only a basic idea of what's going on - high level management is incompetent (and they never have time for anything ;) - your career there will be fruitful if you are basically a liar (you can always say it's others fault - nobody checks it) - if you join production team, like gameplay or design, then be prepared to erase you all-time-job because a guy at the top didn't like it (literally) - or didn't like you - or both - there are no processes, no defined rules. it's almost like a deathmatch game - you have to always ask others for help because there is almost no documentation (a few outdated documents may still be valid), no TDDs, no GDDs - there is no task estimation, so you will never know if you are hard-working or lazy (you will get annual pay rise anyway) - meetings are always the same: "let's talk about it after the metting" which never happens, so there is a huge waste of time - teamwork isn't effective at all because everyone is chasing their tails and they are always: tired, exhausted, depressed - the worst thing is that many passionate people spend a lot of their time, doing amazing stuff and it's totally wasted

- Mobbing and bullying and nepotism is completely a normal routine in this company - If anyone accuses you of anything, no one is gonna even check it out or look at any evidence, they just believe whatever is told - This is your first day at Warsaw office: Once you enter the office from receptionist desk to your workstation there are magazines all around the wall with the CEO printed on their cover because they need to make sure you know that he is one of the richest people in Poland before you start your work - Rotation is extremely high, the day I got hired my onboarding HR partner got fired on my first day. You might end up reading 10 goodbye emails a week and this is not even exaggeration. - Communication between departments does not exist. You might see QA team ending up getting a weekend shift to test a content that is deleted from the game (by the Boss order) but no one ever told them about it so they had no clue they shouldn't test a deleted scene. - Every guide for onboarding is outdated or completely in Polish. If you are not from Poland you have no chance of self learning. - Outdated technology, the bug tracker they used is almost from Windows 98 era (recently got updated to what every normal company uses). - There is no reporting standard for bugs on their tracker, anyone reports anything however they want because there is no training or company format in reporting bugs. - If Techland wants to fire someone, they will make sure entire people in the office are disliking you first, daily they will call each person and talk bad about the person they wanna fire. Then they start asking questions and expect negative feedback for each. Then they file all the stuff and fire the person from back door in middle of the shift. - You most likely find a lot of higher ups (leads or seniors) having absolutely no technical skill or value, because it is extremely easy to get promoted in this company if you know how to pretend you are doing something useful such as writing newsletters while your job is actually dev ups tools (as example): 1. Example, someone whose CV is only freelance opera singing might join the company as junior QA and within less than two years gets the position of Producer. Obviously such person does not know anything about technical data so when there is a mess around, instead they shield other employees for their mess up and even if you provide full evidence (screenshots etc) of such action, you are the one getting in trouble because they are relative of Boss. 2. You might face very direct threats and insults both verbally and written down to you via company chat, even if you provide screenshot of this to HR or anyone else nothing is gonna happen except you getting fired because they are "relatives of the boss". 3. QA department in this company does not even exist, the entire job was/is being done by their outsource. You might end up asking almost anyone even leads at Techland about the game and they have no clue what you are talking about. Because majority or busy writing "newsletter" for the boss. Boss really loves those because that is how he grants promotion. What was our QA doing during development time? Posting passive-aggressive comments on the bug tracker for developers because their lead with 20 years of experience in Techland trained them this how you should treat the developers.