PLAYSTUDIOS reviews

2.8

30% would recommend to a friend

(205 total reviews)

Andrew Pascal

30% approve of CEO

12% positive business outlook

PLAYSTUDIOS has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 205 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The PLAYSTUDIOS employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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205 reviews
1.0
Mar 25, 2023

Gaslighting, chaotic leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Health Insurance for US employees

Cons

Leadership constantly restructured the organization and implemented top down changes to our studios entire development process, while at the same time constantly pushed for increased profitability and decreasing opex (even making decreasing opex a public OKR for a quarter). This led to constant stress and pressure on the team with increasing employee churn. While other studios were having ski trips, huge parties in the desert and helicopter rides over the Vegas strip, our studio was forced to audit every program license we used and having access removed, losing access to parking garage cards for our own office, and rarely having team celebrations at all. Looking back, this should have been a sign but instead our studio was constantly praised for our efforts in leaning into new processes, championing entirely new OKR systems, and being told we were a "model for the rest of the company" in monthly reviews with leadership. So what did all of this sacrifice lead to? Our entire studio shut down overnight and all jobs outsourced, no accelerated vesting of RSUs (which were given instead of bonuses), and to top it all off leadership moved forward with enforcement of non-competes on several loyal employees they laid off. Does this sound like a company and people you want to work for? And if you do, take everything said with a huge grain of salt.

4.0
Mar 16, 2023

Company culture

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good culture and nice ppl

Cons

Some People are not professional

1.0
Mar 10, 2023

If you're thinking about applying, don't

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Working with genuinely cool, talented people -Free lunches/snacks in a cool, well designed office spaces -Health insurance is quality and free

Cons

-Constantly changing direction and organizational structure (quarterly), and following along with these changes gets you nowhere -Lowest pay in the industry with none of the benefits. Will string employees along with empty promises with no follow through -Upper management will lie to any employee to get them to stay and then lay them off a month later with no remorse - No bonus structure, will offer RSUs and then lay employees off before they vest - Hitting goals and targets don't matter. Prepare to be overloaded with OKRs that mean nothing and go nowhere

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