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Good Old Boys club of dysfunction - Anonymous employee ProbablyMonsters Employee Review

1.0
Aug 20, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- There were some really talented, great people at this company... but they've probably all been laid off

Cons

- Sexual Discrimination goes unpunished - Repeated failures are allowed as long as you're a friend of the CEO - CEO's friends are on payroll & insurance for years but without any job responsibilities - The company shut down 8+ projects in 2024 and laid of most people working on them - unless you were a friend of the CEO, in which case they found new work for you. - Severance packages are tiny compared to many other employers (3-6 weeks) - They pivoted in 2024/2025 to smaller projects with outsourcing. They announced 2 of those games mid-2025, using the project leads names in their advertising. Weeks later they laid off those project leads (before the titles even shipped). - CEO doesn't believe in office perks (under the guise of not making work too comfortable so that you go home at the end of the day), so bring your own coffee machine! - In multiple years of my employment there literally every single conversation with the CEO (one-on-ones and group meetings) involved him sharing an anecdote about some previous colleagues failures, how he's smarter than everyone else in the industry, how Phil Spencer wishes he'd come save xbox, etc.

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5.0
Mar 23, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay/Benefits and growth opportunities. Excited about the games shipping this year and next.

Cons

Lots of change in the company direction but that the entire industry.

2.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay was good, great benefits, they assembled a number of really great teams that had a ton of passion. Received a sign on bonus and severance.

Cons

From the director level up, management was confused on direction and was terrible at prioritizing. One example is having my bonus tied to the number of people that could be hired in a year at a company level despite being an engineer. Games that showed no promise were scaled up at the wrong time and those that did show promise were abandoned. They laid off almost everyone in Bellevue and then opened roles in Texas too which is a super classy move.

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