Zynga reviews

4.1

87% would recommend to a friend

(1,394 total reviews)
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Frank Gibeau

91% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Zynga has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,394 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Zynga 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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1.0
Mar 7, 2017
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Catered lunch, trips, dog-friendly, happy hour every week or every day depending on how your boss feels, plenty of company outings, work from home, generous vacation and health care benefits. Lots of programs at your fingertips for free.

Cons

Constant lay-offs and resignations from the top down, plus lots of misleading objectives. That job description for a new VIP Account Manager is very misleading. Your day to day tasks will primarily involve taking constant calls from gambling addicts (VIPs) with too much free time, that expect you to spend your entire day talking to them. They will call you crying, howling, throwing temper tantrums, create fake illnesses, blast you on social media, stole my Facebook photo and edit it, complain to your boss and write the CEO. Aside from that, you will not be retrieving any revenue reports to assess your efforts, your skills will not grow, you will not become efficient in learning the systems unless you literally teach yourself, provided you have access. In addition, the disconnect between management will make it nearly impossible to provide any form of consistency to your client base. Oh and if you even blink too many times you will be pulled into a coaching to come up with a way for you to stop blinking so much. And meetings, meetings, meetings, meetings... boy will there be impromptu meetings in addition to the ones previously on your calendar. You'll meet to get told-off as a team, and you'll meet to give ideas, only for someone in a higher position to capitalize off of your idea while you receive no credit. To summarize, you will spend most of your day sending emails to the same people about the same issues, talking on the phone non-stop, mostly to the same people several times a day about the same thing again and again. Don't blink too much unless you want to be coached on a solution for that. If you want to deal all with that then please apply.

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Zynga Response
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Thank you for your feedback. Building relationships with our players is key to this role and we believe that regular coaching sessions with your manager and meetings with the game teams are important to development and success. While we disagree with your characterization of the work and our VIPs, we take this feedback seriously and are always looking for ways to will improve and make sure the team feels valued.
2.0
Oct 11, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

it is local in San Francisco. Free meals 3x week. Typical new media feel, so hours and choice of clothing/hair colour are free.

Cons

The hours can be regular or out of control, depending what team you are on. Most of the exec staff (those that haven't jumped or been pushed) don't know what they are doing.

1.0
Oct 8, 2012

Waiting for the Apocalypse

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun start-up culture and perks but honestly, it's a waste of money.

Cons

Management at many levels is confused or misdreicted. Ever changing focus and intiatives. Cronyism is rampant. Lack of transparency. Never saw a review the whole time I was here and most of my one-on-one meetings w manger were cancelled, then he left the company about 8 months after he hired me. Currently working on my exit strategyu, actually, Iahve it already, just enjoying the view as Rome burns.

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