CD PROJEKT RED Reviews

Pros

+Great, talented and hard-working people from all over the world.

+ Good for CV, people outside of industry are impressed to hear of someone working there.

+ Good pay for locals. Ex-pats get some bonuses to match western paychecks.

+ Cheery atmosphere on the work floors, people bringing snacks from trips, jokes etc. Active off-topic channels.

+ Free Gym, with a qualified trainer and a Multi-Sport card if someone wants to go swimming etc. to other places in the city.

+ Multiple lunch options: Sandwiches in the morning, breakfasts, vending machines, We have a vegan canteen and a REGULAR one just next to it. Food trucks on daily rotation if someone wants something different. No one goes hungry in CDP building.

+ Very cool parties organized by HR.

+ 20-26 paid leave days...

Advice to Management

Have a vision. One vision. At least when deep into production.

If you hire people for their specialties, let them do just that. Trust your Seniors. I know we all want to make the best possible games, but throwing away hundreds of hours of work while setting milestones every 2 weeks leaves the work folk angry and tired.

Why are people who worked with the upper floors coming back either resigned and sad, or not coming back at all?
Can't say i had any first hand experience, but seeing close co-workers so miserable at times really hurts.

We're all just people, and seeing that "the way it works now gives results, so no need to change" isn't healthy.
Soon no-one will want to work there. We make great games, but at a greater cost.

Pyramids are beautiful to look at, a real monument of what can humans achieve when working together, but no one wants to take part in building them, right?

Pros

- cool environment to work (canteenes, gym, social/beer fridays, and even more)
- very friendly and talented people
- super, ambitious projects
- qualified management, who are staying with others in crunch time
- paid overtime
- good salaries and bonus system

Pros

the staff were enthusiastic

Advice to Management

Perhaps if they start focusing on creating a RPG rather than a glorified action adventure game with a worthless perk based progession system and create a new RPG from the ground up, maybe then they'll start earning there namesake as the 'industry leader on creating RPG's' ideology

Pros

Great ambitious project;
Great, super talented and mostly kind people;
Vegan cantine;
Very good social events.

Advice to Management

Please start to think about changing your production process, cause right now there is none.

Pros

Great people, especially in dev, descent pay (in back office)

Advice to Management

Be open to people who what to change their career path within the company

Pros

good guys to work with
free gym

Advice to Management

Get rid of Adam Badowski!

Pros

- great people in the trenches
- if you are proactive, you will get promoted fast

Pros

All I have to say here is that a lot if not all of these reviews below are fake. We often talked to our staff and made sure they are perfectly happy working there. If anything was missing, we'd make sure we had a plan to atleast implement it.
I no longer work there simply because I got too stressed, and I will never work anywhere if it's stressful, even if it is my dream job. I hate stress.

Pros

Everything was wonderful oh and vegetarian cantina

Pros

- Flexible work hours (better than any other studio I have seen)
- Paid Crunch (First studio I have ever seen that in)
- Crunch is generally not a thing unless given the green light to do so.
- Vegetarian Canteen (Because it's nice to see people so mad about it, even though it's pretty good and thousands of other options are available. Meat eater myself, eating some veggies never hurt anyone)

- Friendly and talented colleagues.
- Common sense about creating something next gen and cutting edge, always.
- Clearly positive changes from previous productions.
- The usual social gatherings, parties, etc.
- High salary compared to other jobs in Poland
- Higher living standard than any other game studio I have worked at.
- Higher net amount of money after taxes than any other studio even though they paid more gross.

- Living expenses cut in half! compared to most other countries.
- High and good expectations of deliveries and end-product.
- Serious and compact production pipeline.

Advice to Management

- Please don't say you listen, if you actually don't.

- We are all in this together, nothing good ever came out of a one-man show with just one vision.

- Remember that the only critique you should listen to is that of current and former employees. Spending time on critique from people who don't work in games or public internet figures and responding to them at all isn't providing you with a good image and can appear slightly childish, regardless of how childish the critique may also be.

- Last minute changes will make you seem indecisive.
- Listen to the employees for their feedback on all game elements, after all they are professional developers and gamers too.