PlayQ reviews

4.5

96% would recommend to a friend

(23 total reviews)

Joseph Aigboboh

100% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

PlayQ has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 23 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The PlayQ employee rating is 21% above average for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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23 reviews
4.0
Apr 19, 2024
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Everyone is helpful, any difficulty you have, there is always someone to help. The company is very organized.

Cons

Sometimes the work can be more repetitive than usual.

2.0
Jan 11, 2018

Silo'd & Politicized Mobile Start Up

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Small, intimate team Interesting location in Santa Monica near 3rd Street

Cons

Every team is extremely silo'd with management taking meetings independently and with very little transparency. This is a small startup and to have a culture that is founded in need-to-know basis and top down management is not befitting the healthy growth needed at this nascent stage. Management consistently changes scope and overrides decisions that were made by those who do the work, changing the design of features, UI, etc. with very little care to engineers, producers and PM resulting in scrambles and last minute heroics. Also, why is the office so quiet? You can hear a pin drop. For a mobile gaming company, the energy is severely lacking and it feels like a sweatshop. You basically come in, dont talk to anyone and do your work. Some people might like the entire heads down approach but to develop games you need solid collaboration and discussion. The office is so eerily quiet almost as if people are afraid to talk and make noise because management is within earshot. A company culture that has hints of reprimands or fear of speaking out because you may get admonished, embarrassed, etc. are all signs of weak leadership and management. Lastly, while the owners will gain the lions share of profits, they won't be able to expand beyond their capacities if they continue to be clones and knock offs of other match 3, casual game studios. The studio is essentially a wanna-be Rovio and while that will generate revenue for the company and create jobs, it certainly won't be an innovative or exciting place to work.

5.0
Jan 24, 2018

The place to be in Silicon Beach!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Location, location, location!!! Great offices, location next to the beach and the 3rd St promenade. Take your morning coffee looking at the beach and the pier! Awesome work life balance, for real! They know that people have lives outside of work and everybody is on board with this being a core component of PlayQ. Great projects, highly polished. The users and the quality of the project are really important. Modern and cutting edge technology, with an awesome roadmap.

Cons

The benefits package is ok, but not on par with larger studios. So its not complete and cost a little more. But once again, it is OK, you and your family will be covered and protected.

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