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Evil Geniuses

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Amoral to the core - IT Manager Evil Geniuses Employee Review

1.0
Oct 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The majority of IC & manager-level employees are very passionate about the gaming industry and care deeply about the success of both the company and the industry.

Cons

- Senior leadership relies on gaslighting and fear of failure to drive projects forward - Constant back-and-forth decision-making at a leadership level leads to tens of thousands of company dollars wasted on projects that never get off the ground. The failure of a project is then blamed solely on the employees working on the project. Often times this leads to the termination of the project team and a constant bad-mouthing of the terminated employees by the CEO for the next few weeks to months.  - C suite executives have no idea how to manage scaling teams and turn subject matter experts into overworked & overwhelmed messes. I've seen countless team members experience burnout and eventually have to resign due to the stress. CEO phrases their departures as "they were not cut out for the job". - CEO will make repeated remarks about your intelligence or the intelligence of other employees, implying that they or you are useless and she needs to do everything herself. - CEO will take away projects from subject matter experts that she thinks she can run better, she will, in turn, run the project into the ground, and then blame the subject matter expert for its failure. - C suite/VP level leadership openly tells managers about the CEO's rage outbursts and how they try to keep the CEO away from IC/low-level managers because she is prone to outbursts of rage. Other reviewers have noted that people stay away from the CEO, this was also my experience. - CEO runs a glorified popularity contest, if you are in her favor you are awarded the most visible work with a high opportunity for advancement, if you are out of favor but still functioning at a high level you are cast aside and will not participate on projects or be invited to social events. - On multiple occasions, I have witnessed the CEO smash or throw IT equipment or other items around the office in outbursts of rage.

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5.0
Mar 25, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Inclusive culture, open-minded, work-life balance, and young leadership

Cons

Getting hired as a full-time employee from Internship seemed low.

4.0
Oct 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Learned a lot and fun and supportive team.

Cons

Low chance of getting converted to full time

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