Does PlayStation pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, PlayStation employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at PlayStation. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at PlayStation?

80% of PlayStation employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated PlayStation 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at PlayStation?

Software Engineer (76) , Senior Software Engineer (38) , Manager (31) , Project Manager (19) , Intern (16) , Product Manager (15) , Senior Manager (15) , Marketing (14) , Animator (13) , Game Tester (13) , Director (12) , Producer (12) , Program Manager (12) , Internship (10) , Software Developer (10)

What are the pros of working at PlayStation according to real employee reviews?

"Great for people without experience to get a head start and move up in a corporate environment." ((in 211 reviews)); "Good benefits if you are a gamer" ((in 116 reviews)); "Good work/life balance (hours are reasonable)" ((in 77 reviews)); "Team is great and supportive" ((in 62 reviews)); "Colleagues are great and fun" ((in 34 reviews))

What are the cons of working at PlayStation according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is low." ((in 54 reviews)); "low salary and hard to progress" ((in 41 reviews)); "You need to find a good team and manager." ((in 36 reviews)); "The result is there is no leadership at Sony because the focus is all on managing down to control the Engineers and tell them how to do their job." ((in 25 reviews)); "Senior management tends to micromanage and does not allow staff to make critical decisions." ((in 20 reviews))

What are employees saying about PlayStation layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about PlayStation layoffs and their outlook for job security at PlayStation in 2026.

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4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,331 total reviews)

Jim Ryan

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Culture & values

4.0

Work/Life balance

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.5

Senior management

PlayStation has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,331 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The PlayStation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews

1.0

May 19, 2017

Good People, Terrible Management

Senior software engineer

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

- Large-scale - Really great engineers - Weekly lunches - Benefits

Cons

- 25% of the advertised compensation was a yearly bonus. Don't be fooled. Depending on when you join it might be 1.5 years before you get it. - Also, if they decide you are not worth what they're paying, which base salary is already below average, they will string you along until just before bonus time and cut you with 0 days warning. - Also, and this is a first that I've ever heard of in the Bay Area, no severance whatsoever. Yes, none at all. Nothing. No 2 weeks pay, no warning, no here's rent money until you find something. Just, don't show up any more. - They work you like a start up but you have none of the creative input. - Management is incompetent and out of touch with the technologies and decisions. - Politics. A friend who spearheaded a major initiative to change the entire server deployment process, working day and night, did not get a promotion while the manager is taking all the credit.

1.0

Jun 10, 2015

Intuit has ruined Sony

Anonymous employee

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

Working for sony network entertainment is very rewarding because you get to work on something that is in the face of millions of users. This is extremely large scale. It's exciting and fun to know that you are part of something big.

Cons

The new untouchable upper management that was pulled in from intuit is ruining this company by striking fear in everyone and firing good employees. Mediocre VPs with no experience bring in directors of engineering who have never been an engineer just does not make any sense. It's hard to respect directors who acts with a brute force without even understanding the perspective of others. They completely threw away everything we have been working so hard on and come into the company demanding to rebuild everything for the sake of rebuilding. The moral is really low in the company and it kills any innovation because we have no freedom to innovate.

1.0

May 27, 2015

Intuit Mafia is ruining SNEI

Anonymous employee

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

Sony has a good work/life balance. SNEI revenue is growing rapidly and should continue to do so for at least the next year or two. Most people working there who are not former Intuit employees are good people to work with.

Cons

Over the last year a new executive in the San Diego office has been aggressively clearing out people and installing yes-people from Intuit. We're not just talking about clearing out people that perhaps needed to go, but clearing out anyone that asks questions. The entire atmosphere of innovation, collaboration, and desire to produce the best result for the company has been replaced with one that punishes innovation and enforces conformity and acquiescence over all else.

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