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      PLAYSTUDIOS

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      PLAYSTUDIOS reviews

      2.7

      23% would recommend to a friend

      (205 total reviews)

      Andrew Pascal

      22% approve of CEO

      13% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Culture & values

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      2.5

      Career opportunities

      2.0

      Senior management

      PLAYSTUDIOS has an employee rating of 2.7 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 27% below average for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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      205 reviews
      2.0
      May 24, 2021

      Started good, but went downhill

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits. Non-managers on the team are all great to work with; hardworking, good communication, and knowledgeable. We get goodies once a month, which is nice.

      Cons

      Release schedule has not been adjusted despite losing 15+ developers since in the last year (only ~4 have been hired to compensate), leading to lots of overtime and rushed work. Mid-management is a grab-bag of skill ranging from uninspiringly capable to morale-crushingly incompetent. Don't bother hoping for this to change, though, since they're mostly family and friends of family. New features are underdeveloped due to incomplete designs (see previous point) and buggy upon release due to understaffed QA working on hyper-accelerated cycles. The company is stingy about pay raises. Any question regarding them is handled by management ignoring it and hoping you forget about it. There's a push for outsourcing art, engineering, and QA. You can't spin hiring cheaper overseas replacements as a good thing for the dev team.

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      PLAYSTUDIOS Response
      5y
      Thank you for providing your feedback. Since you appear to be an active employee, I would appreciate the opportunity for a conversation with you to discuss your thoughts in more detail and to hear your recommendations. We have action plans to tackle areas of improvement raised during the playMAKER Retreat that I can share with you. Feel free to connect with me via email or slack to schedule a time that works for you.
      3.0
      Jul 14, 2019

      The Company

      Front end engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Had met with some very talented people and friendly crowd in the office. Flexible hours. Good technology stacks. Outing activity is great. You can bring dogs to work. Free lunch for Wed and Thur. Excellent office manager.

      Cons

      Company was great at the first few years. There is very little room to grow in products and thus also as an individual at the company. There are tremendous structural changes. CEO is determined to put everything under his control. So all the other cofounders are gone and so of every level of the organization is washed out. It is not a very stable working environment.

      1.0
      Aug 27, 2023

      Awful experience

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I left a position with a very toxic boss only to join PLAYSTUDIOS with an executive team of inexperienced egomaniacs. The only pro was that I was significantly better at my job than everyone around me so I was able to continuously out perform despite incompetent leadership and hires. I also made money on my stocks by leaving early and recently selling while anyone foolishly held out hope for the company to actually succeed.

      Cons

      Nepotism was horrific. Despite entire lack of experience and competence these people were entrusted with the success of major titles. Failure and disasters were never addressed at the source and instead of ever holding the right people accountable they shut down a studio.

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