Absurdly backwards place to work. Gives the game industry a bad name.
Pros
- Good for your CV Many companies will be impressed by your Sony Playstation experience in future interviews. - Suitable as a "job-between-jobs" Meaning if you're thinking of leaving your current job, use this position while you look for your next one as it's only beneficial as a short-term solution.
Cons
- Supports 'crunch culture' I found myself being immensely overworked during a deadline period of a project. Overtime pay is decided by the managers. It is commonly known amongst employees that rejecting an offer of overtime will inevitably become one of the reasons to terminate your role. Project management is disgustingly unprepared and unplanned which leads to many times to crunch. This should not be happening anymore in this industry. - Extremely toxic office culture Office is one big clique and is full of favouritism. If you don't believe in becoming friends with a certain group of people then your time there will be short. It seems that only people inside this clique are the ones to become promoted or be given work on the bigger, more exciting projects. - "Yoh!" Yoh is a staffing/outsourcing company. When you work as a contract tester for Playstation, you're actually working for Yoh and will get few, if not none of the Playstation benefits. Yoh as a company also bankrolls the U.S military and U.S firearms and this is something that will get your contract terminated if you're caught talking about while in the office. - Zero job security You've probably already picked this up from the points above, but as a functional tester you have zero job security. You will have a rolling contract which can be terminated at any time. You will be constantly reinforced by test leads and managers that you're doing a good job and that there's nothing to worry about, only to be handed your termination letter a week later. - Disgusting Salary During my time there I was earning less than £15,000 p/y which went up by a small amount every year, and I can imagine it's probably just over that now. It's better than nothing, obviously, but be aware that they're not paying you what you're worth, and they take advantage of that while they earn more than triple. Here's a piece of advice: You can get a permanent testing role in most (better) game companies for at the very least £18,000 p/y or even more if you move down South.