PlayStation reviews

Much of this is probably dependent on the team you are a part of. In fact that itself is a major con. The teams are generally very siloed. There is not a lot of communication across teams on the individual contributor level. The management style is very top-down. They pretend to be agile by implementing SAFe, but SAFe is a little too structured and too pre-planned to really be considered agile. The company is very inefficient. Most of the teams at the San Diego location are there to support infrastructure in some form or fashion, but yet there are always outages. The company would do well to outsource the infrastructure support and hosting to a vendor and focus on developing services. There are also cultural inefficiencies. For those that are unlucky enough to have a team with mostly Japanese management, you had better learn Japanese or else you can expect not to be included in any of the decision making process. There is an obvious divide in business culture: Japanese and everyone else. They do a lot to take care of employees (see the pros) but the management style and the inefficiencies just make you not care to try. There is such a culture of mediocrity, and so much of the work seems like work for the sake of work. If you are close to retirement age and looking for a place to just coast for the last few years, there is probably a position here where you can give minimal effort and not get a lot of grief for it.

Ineffective leadership and poor employee appreciation. Goals are not clearly defined, and you are reviewed upon incoherent goals created a month prior. Confusing structure, long hours, and poor treatment of employees. Very little opportunities to move upward and no tools to help you grow. Talented people do not stay very long. Elitist and very boy's club. No female VPs ever. Brilliant women have either been laid off, left, or are not promoted. VPs hire their buddies or ...groomsmen. Does not pay competitively, HR will low-ball you so they can get their bonus. HR covers management's rears. And a handful of them act inappropriately.