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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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      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
      5.0
      Apr 23, 2014

      Fantastic, fun company, takes care of top talent.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Zynga prided itself on growing young employees into incredible talent. Employees were evaluated and rewarded on a quarterly basis. Normally, this was done with stock and cash bonuses. Nowadays, there's a more structured system for reviewing employees, where the old days would give bigger reward pools to teams doing well.

      Cons

      Like any game company, Zynga is a hit driven business. When your game team is doing well, you were rewarded. When your team isn't making money, games were sunset. In the early days, there were late hours and weekend work, but most of Zynga's new game teams are well managed and structure their schedules for a much more healthy balance.

      4.0
      Apr 12, 2014

      Great company to work!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Awesome work culture with full of fun. Benefits are great: food, beverages, gym.

      Cons

      Going from start up to a corporate game company was very rough for everyone we've been through a lot of growing pains

      4.0
      Apr 9, 2014

      Not for everyone, but has been great for me

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      My current team is awesome. The company cut a lot of the fat (not all) and I landed on a team with veterans from the game industry. Benefits are great: food, beverages, gym, showers, and team offsites. Time-off is flexible as long as employees work it out with their team for full timers. Compensation has been restructured - it's way more fair than before and teams that haven't launched or who do not create games have compensation opportunities. My work life balance is perfect right now (although it wasn't always that way). Most importantly, the management on my team is AMAZING. My boss is the best I've ever had and is helping me grow in my career as a game maker (not just a Zynga employee).

      Cons

      Going from start up to a corporate game company was very rough for everyone we've been through a lot of growing pains. When I started, much of the management was very young and inexperienced so they didn't know how to make the transition work. We are still recovering from teams being run by business people and not by game makers who understand the business (albeit it is improving). We lost some great talent from the layoffs, but tbh, many would have left anyway. Several people that have left have moved from start up to start up and get nostalgic about this place, so it really depends on an individuals experience. While some managers are amazing, there are still others that are terrible (but with a company this large, of course it isn't perfect, even though there is no excuse for it). Zynga is a great place to be or the worst depending on who's POV you ask.

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