Pocket Gems reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(101 total reviews)
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Ben Liu

91% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Pocket Gems has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Pocket Gems 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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101 reviews
5.0
Sep 28, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* Great team. The company is essentially building the best team in mobile and solving some of the toughest challenges, pushing what's technically possible on mobile devices through it's games * Focus on innovation. It already has a dominant position in the casual gaming market with a lot of blockbuster genre defining hits, and with its strong focus on innovation it's poised well to build on this lead where most of the competitors in the space are busy copying and making cheap reskins * Opportunity to grow/learn. As is natural with a company that's growing so quickly ( in terms of revenue, business, # of products, employees etc. ) there are ample opportunities for individual growth and learning as well

Cons

* Less focus on pure research. As can be expected at a company of it's size, there are enough high priority challenges to be solved in the short term that you get few opportunities to work on less defined open ended problems.

5.0
Sep 19, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Very collaborative, feels like a shared mission of being the leader in mobile entertainment - Free food, great office, casual feel - Extremely talented people who work hard and are motivated - Make fun, cool games in a fast moving and growing space

Cons

- Growing pains of changing from 10 to 150 people in less than 1.5 years is still felt - Paying down technical debt from moving quickly

5.0
Sep 14, 2012

Fantastic experience overall

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has an ambitious vision of becoming a leader in mobile entertainment and is hungry to succeed (but never at the expense of ethics or employee morale) Pocket Gems definitely has an A-team - very talented and driven employees across the board. The work culture offers a great mix of autonomy / empowerment and teamwork. Lots of happy hours and team events, a fun place to work on the whole.

Cons

Strong personalities here, so be prepared to argue to defend your ideas and opinions. Thankfully, everyone puts the company first and culture is not political / hierarchical so the best idea usually wins

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