Invoke Studios reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)

Cynthia Williams

72% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

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10 reviews
5.0
Oct 30, 2023

Lovely Studio

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* No ego * Lots of good and competent people working there * Great IPs

Cons

* Lacks a bit of diversity

5.0
Jul 28, 2022

Great Studio, Great Team!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Smaller scale studio with tons of talent. The team it tighly knit. It feels like a family here. Great sense of belongning with the group. Benefits are great compared to most studio in Montreal. Smaller studio with the means and support system of a big one. Part of Wizards of the Coast

Cons

We still feel the studio is growing. Still missing talent in key areas. Good place to build for the future if that's what you like

3.0
Apr 19, 2022

Some good sides.. and some bad

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great benefits / holiday package - Not much crunch ever ...except for programmers - A few really excellent individuals I have felt lucky to work with and who can carry an entire project - Currently the salaries are good - They seem to be listening to employees more and actually changing HR policies based on what would make us happy, for example the way remote work vs office work transition has been handled seems to have taken our opinions into account - Upper management seems friendly from what I have seen and more keen than some to treat employees like individual humans. Hopefully this stays the same as the company scales up. - Good management of IT and infrastructures - Nice neighbourhood - Overall friendly culture - Wizards of the Coast offers some cool perks and lots of great merch / goodies, put a lot of effort into making us feel like we are part of something bigger

Cons

- It's unclear what makes people be picked for hire and for promotions in many cases. Some people who have no idea what they are doing (or what others are doing) or who straight up do not care, are sometimes given incredible power to make other people's lives difficult. This is true in almost all areas that have any power over planning and production of content. As another review says, some employees with terrible working practices and no legitimacy are going completely unchecked - It sounds like the management / production side of things is done very cowboy-style especially in the design side of things, with people taking arbitrary decisions that will affect everyone or waste a lot of people's time, and people just go along with it. People who know what they are doing have their work plagued by messy process, and lack of streamlined communication on individual bugs / issues, while people who have no idea and would need a lot of guidance are just left to run wild because there is simply no one managing them. - Some areas can be a complete void of information or syncing across departments, and some other parts suffer from the opposite problem of having a lot of useless noise and people communicating for the sake of it without listening to each other at all. - Salary review process has been horrible for a long time, though it looks like this recently got better - General lack of diversity, as it is generally in games - Based on how the last project went, it's difficult to feel very optimistic about the next one without a few important changes

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