Great vision, poor sight. - Anonymous employee Disruptor Beam Employee Review

1.0
Apr 25, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Cool, laid back culture in the office. Very casual, smart colleagues. Great pay and benefits. I'd really liked to have worked here longer.

Cons

I was part of the mass layoff in October 2017, 3 weeks after I started. Though management was apologetic I still can't believe how short-sighted this was. It wasn't laying off under-performers, it was a 40% reduction in staff. How a company can't see that coming to the point they're still adding staff a month before speaks poorly to their foresight. I only hope none of the management will ever, ever make this horrible mistake again.

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5.0
Nov 8, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great co-workers and great benefits.

Cons

The company has gone through several downsizes but that is expected in the industry.

4.0
Sep 26, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A deeply collaborative environment staffed with kind, hard-working, and generous employees. Work with the biggest IPs in the world and sometimes meet your heroes as a result. Even the bad reviews admit that compensation/benefits and work/life balance are top-notch--rare and wonderful things in this industry, and not to be dismissed lightly. The office is also friendly and accommodating to women, minority, LGBTQ, and disabled employees in equal measure--no Rioters here. Our diminished size, while obviously also a con, is the prospective hire's pro. If you want room to grow, we have tons to spare.

Cons

Layoffs are bad. Failure is bad. Clearly things are bad all around right now for a review war to have erupted here. Every employee who has passed through Disruptor Beam has put in 110% effort, and it is deeply frustrating to both former and current employees when management fails to hold up their end of the bargain.

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