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      Zynga

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      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

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      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Senior management

      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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      1K reviews
      1.0
      Oct 30, 2015

      Worse working experience of my life.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great rank-and-file, decent pay and benefits, good food.

      Cons

      I do not exaggerate when I say that my manager was a psychopath. After a bit of work from various members of the team, she unceremoniously left the company. One day she was talking to us about 6 month plans, and the next day she was gone. It turns out, though, she was not the root cause of the problems, but simply a symptom of the larger issue with the broken leadership.

      4.0
      Aug 11, 2014

      If you can handle it, you'll excel.

      Senior engineering manager
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - People - Love or hate the games, the people behind this company are it's best asset. Smart, driven, fast and always open to help, you'll be pulled forward by them and if you're smart enough to find a good mentor, they'll help you push yourself to new heights. Go for the people! - Be your own CEO - Ability to own and impact large areas of whatever you're working on with distributed decision making. - Zynga Speed == Pragmatic - To move fast you have to make trade-offs and this place will teach you how to do it better than anyone out there. - Zynga First - Egos get pushed aside when someone challenges you with "is that Zynga first?" - Meritocracy - Doesn't matter if you're in QA, Documentation or Design, your voice gets heard and the best ideas rise to the top if people have the confidence to speak up. - Level Up - If you aspire to move up and can both build and execute upon a plan to grow your career then Zynga will reward you with upwards mobility. Just don't think working REALLY hard is enough, it's not, you need to show results. - Innovate - the games might not always show it (see cons) but internally the company is never afraid to change itself, processes, teams or tech in order to move forward. Sometimes that's a messy thing but at least it breaks the old molds and creates new ones.

      Cons

      - Insane hard pace at times, you'll burn out if you can't figure out how to stay healthy (which is your responsibility). - Regurgitation - games can be very derivative and there are economies of scale in doing so, move around to make sure you don't get bored, 1 year per team. - Ruled by Numbers - sometimes you need to use gut and intuition but those aren't always trusted if there's no comparable numbers to look at it.

      1.0
      Jun 7, 2013

      Don't lay off your best talent

      "produktmanager lederwaren, schmuck, home und deko"
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      While it lasted, it was a great gig. The perks were nice and the people were fun to work with.

      Cons

      Their recent round of layoffs were "wrong place, wrong time" with no consideration made to skills, positions, seniority, value, etc. The company blindly cut teams right and left giving no consideration to who/what/when/why. Company sent an entire team to Hawaii not one month prior to laying off 500+ employees. If you are currently there or one of the new hires (Yes they are still hiring....explain that...) you need to get yourself on the Poker or FarmVille 2 teams as quickly as possible. It doesn't matter if you think another team has potential...Poker is the safest place to be. The company is crumbling one team at a time and those will be the last to go.

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