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      Fortis Games

      Part of Las Vegas Sands

      Engaged Employer

      Fortis Games reviews

      3.8

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (51 total reviews)

      Steven Chiang

      77% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      Fortis Games has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fortis 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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      51 reviews
      1.0
      Dec 29, 2022

      Don’t do it.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits…. When/if you get them. There’s a “parent” company for safety.

      Cons

      First off, the hiring process. It’s horribly long, you have to fill out essay questions, and you’re never sure when you’ll hear from someone. You also are given the option on laptop preference. This was an ordeal, never received the laptop I requested. When I inquire, I’m always told “it’s coming.” Secondly, the company is still new, but no one seems to understand what exactly they’re doing or how to run a company. Don’t ask questions, you won’t receive any answers. Thirdly, you can’t trust anyone. It’s like high school, where people always talk behind your back. Others take credit for your ideas/work. You also work ALL the time, there is no work/life balance.

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      Fortis Games Response
      3y
      I’m really sorry that this has been your experience here. I wanted to ensure we touch every point you mentioned in your review: - Hiring Process & Prompts: This has been priority number 1 for the People Team. They’ve been proactively building out a lot of processes to make sure this feels seamless for both the candidates but also internally for our hiring managers. A lot of growth has happened month over month in this area. We understand that we have an atypical process. Take-home prompts/essays are built into it as we want to prioritize deep and thoughtful thinking and eliminate the time pressure of answering in a face-to-face interview. We believe this gives an equal opportunity to those who aren’t necessarily the strongest speakers but are still deep thinkers. - Laptop: Unfortunately, there’s a worldwide shortage of computer equipment resulting in us being unable to provide preferential laptops at times (i.e. Mac vs PC). We try our best to work around these special cases, including going to physical stores and purchasing equipment to ship if a new hire doesn’t have a personal laptop. We have also implemented better communication in the last couple of months to set clear expectations and laptop option specifications. - New company and ambiguity: As a start-up at scale, we are aware of the growing pains that impact the people who work here. Processes need to be made in an ambiguous environment, and we’re actively working on these. We have been expanding teams to address this, but we also strive to be thoughtful, which means it can take more time to solve properly. It's especially important to us, during this growth period, to receive and act on feedback to make it better. - Work life balance: Having a positive work life balance is something we strive for and we have systems in place to promote this. This includes flexible remote hours, unlimited PTO, Fortis Days, and end-of-year offlines. Hearing you feel as if you need to work all the time is a miss on our part for not communicating the importance of taking time off. I would encourage you to let your managers or People Team know so we can address this. - Trust & Recognition: I deeply apologize for how you feel about our culture. No one should ever feel like they are being talked about behind their back and cannot trust anyone or not get recognition for their work. Community is one of the pillars we build Fortis on, and we want to get to the bottom of this misalignment. To help us get to the bottom of this, please reach out to your manager or skip-level manager and talk through these issues with them if you haven’t already. We do take this seriously and want to make sure our culture matches our values. If you feel like they aren’t addressing it to a satisfactory level, reach out to the People Team. There’s an option to email them privately or even contact a 3rd party, EthicsPoint, to investigate. Both info are pinned in the People Team Slack Channel. We want to make sure that you feel heard and in a safe space to voice your concerns. We appreciate you being candid on here and hope that you’re taking the next steps internally so we can take the necessary steps on our end.
      1.0
      Oct 10, 2023

      Worst Leadership I've ever seen

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Salary, work from home benefits, office/internet/gym stipend. Employees are amazing here (besides leadership). People are willing to work with each other and collaborate to make great projects. They are open to feedback and thinking about things in new ways. The employees are trying to create an amazing work culture, which is difficult from a fully-remote company.

      Cons

      Leadership is absolute rubbish. Atmosphere and culture are big lies. Leadership does not care about the individual employee and they make some of the most unorganized decisions ever. I get that this is a startup but I've never seen worse leadership before in my career. This company is detrimentally unorganized, leadership does not track projects properly. In addition to poor organization leadership just doesn't know how to run a company or ask for information from their employees. Their directions are unclear and they feel as if you don't like them if you keep asking them questions to clarify their requests. Leadership does not live up to their own Fortis values. They do not provide ANY transparency in their decisions, they do not feel as if they need to. They just assign you the work and are not open for any differing ideals. There are many times in which I feel shunned for having a different opinion, and I often do not feel heard of appreciated. Your work is extremely undervalued here. Leadership will ask for documentation and information but will never read what you send them, then a week later they will ask you for the same information that is in the document you sent them last week... If you expect to be valued at a company, go elsewhere.

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      Fortis Games Response
      2y
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. At Fortis, we are committed to creating a workplace where employees feel empowered to create innovative games and give helpful feedback to make each other better; this includes transparency with our leaders. These are critical components of our core values, and we’re sorry to hear that wasn’t your experience. We’d like to invite you to reach out to peopleteam@fortisgames.com to share any specific concerns.
      1.0
      Nov 9, 2023

      Look Elsewhere

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Competitive pay. Remote first. Decent benefits.

      Cons

      You will notice that there are a cluster of reviews at 4-5 stars and a cluster of reviews at 1-2 stars. There are themes present across the 1-2 star reviews. I will discount the 4-5 star reviews as they are either written by people who have drank the kool aid or written by HR types to get the star count higher. The company claims to be like a startup, but it is ~400 people, owned wholly by Sands Casino of ~55000 people. It is not a startup, it is just a smaller enterprise company that wants to be a larger enterprise company with all of the bureaucracy and politics that involves. Fully 1/3 of the current employees are "managers" or other high titled people without work contribution. It has acquired a bunch of former failing game studios that continue to not ship games. It has augmented the bought game studios with nepotism hires. The referral bonus is so high that people compete to get their friends hired. Nobody knows how deep the Sands money bucket is, but I would expect them to really start paying attention to the money spent versus payback at some point very soon. The leadership is absolute rubbish as others have pointed out in glassdoor. It is full of nepotism and politics. They cannot make decisions and do not follow the fortis values. They claim victory internally of a shipping product when a simple mvp has been created. The technical leadership have little technical knowledge and are easily fooled into believing greatness has been achieved. The leadership is pretty much all USA based and the other countries represented in the company are at the mercy of a far away leadership whims. You willed not be valued as an employee, you are just head count that exists to bolster some VP's master plan of creating a larger empire for themselves. Shipping great product with outstanding user experience is not important. Spending your days in meetings is the goal of leadership and that extends down the worker bees. If your idea of working is to come and hang out with your friends, welcome aboard. If you want to make a difference and you are an A player, look elsewhere.

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      Fortis Games Response
      2y
      Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts about your experience at Fortis Games. We take all feedback seriously, and we appreciate your honesty in expressing your concerns. We are fully committed to our mission to create worlds that matter and to create a fulfilling environment for all Fortizens across the globe. We’re sorry to hear that this does not feel aligned with your experience. We continue to be open to feedback and would invite you to contact peopleteam@fortisgames.com if you’re open to discussing your experience further.
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