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3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(313 total reviews)
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Larry Plotnick

75% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Big Fish Games has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 313 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Big Fish Games employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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313 reviews
2.0
Jun 21, 2019

Oakland office is a sinking ship

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The average workers are amazing people.

Cons

Since the aristocrat takeover, management have been either replaced, or hired over by soulless corporate shills that only care about making money by any means necessary. Jobs are starting to get outsourced, and multiple teams are in the process of teaching outsiders how to do their jobs. So may people are leaving we have started clumping their going away parties together. Meanwhile, they tell us that everything is fine, while slowly taking away responsibilities. Our new CEO is a bully that came over from EA, obsessed with “winning” and “crushing the competition” with no regard how it is accomplished. In his first speech to the company he said there were no layoffs planned. Only a few months later they laid off %15 percent of the studio. Every one at the top has been replaced by his lackies, that share his money first, people last attitude.

2.0
Jun 21, 2019
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great/hilarious coworkers, sometimes there's free food, the work itself isn't hard but it's tedious, public transit costs are covered 100%, associate managers and senior reps in CS are super supportive and work tirelessly to help us, sometime get to just chit-chat with great customers that play the games.

Cons

Absolutely no work/life balance unless you can afford to live in Seattle (lol), no competitive pay/stagnant wages, upper management only cares about making us a "billion dollar company," no job security since they're planning on outsourcing our department to India within the next year or so despite the fact that there's other options to "better reach our players faster", upper management will boast about how great your department is before gutting it. All they care about is making more money and "better aligning with Aristocrat (parent company)."

2.0
Jun 19, 2019

Toxic Culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Depending on your role, pay is reasonable. Location near the waterfront close to the heart of the city.

Cons

When the the CEO of the company walks the floors to take an inventory of who leaves before 5pm, you know you're in for a toxic work culture. Culture is defined from the top and you'll quickly see how that toxicity has trickled down through the ranks. If you take a job here, always be prepared to make an exit because there is no telling when you'll have enough and quit or if you'll get fired because you wouldn't sacrifice your integrity to get ahead. This kind of culture will bring out the worst in some folks and you'll see good people become completely different because they are either in self-preservation mode, or see an opportunity to get ahead. Think carefully if you decide to work here because there are people put in charge that use intimidation and coercion to achieve their own goals. I have seen upper management harass their workers, speak inappropriately in many instances, and intimidate and work you to exhaustion in order to make you quit on your own. Even after informing HR from multiple sources, nothing has been done to remove or mitigate this toxicity. Although this type of environment is not unique to any company, I believe simply, that these are the values that this company currently upholds.

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