PLAYSTUDIOS reviews

The cut throat environment was very stressful. Team dynamics were also quite antagonistic. Management tend to micro-manage. Very difficult to liquidate your stock options even though they are part of the overall compensation.

Allot of the people at PlayStudios work very hard to avoid the fact that they are making a gambling app, especially on the art team. There are many communication problems in the company. There are allot of founders and they tend not to agree on majorly important decisions. Art management is very disorganized and stilted on a couple people who cant handle what comes their way in an appropriately professional way. Compensation on the art team is poor compared to the value and yearly reviews often involve title bumps but no salary bump. People are given more responsibility but no pay to reflect the added work. The overall direction of the company is questionable at times and the leadership is increasingly detached from the actual development process. Its a common theme to work hard on something and meet a deadline and then at the end of a cycle have something changes last minute because Founders and upper management fails to give feedback earlier on in the process. The company is built to sell and the decisions made within are solely driven by revenue data and monetization. In most game companies the way to make a game is "its not done till its fun," at PlayStudios thats not the case and Im sure its like that at other social casino game companies as well.