Pros
- Lots of talented and motivated people. - Doing something that so few are doing in the video game industry, taking risks and creating unique products. Although many says that Quantic's game are not "real games", they manage to create works of quality that have impacted the video game industry, in their 20 years of existence. That's still a feat that is worthy of praise and admiration for its founder. - Pretty good life/work balance, not that much crunch (depends on the teams though) - Good ambiance, people you talk to are friendly and motivated, willing to push their work and skills as much as they can.
Cons
- All tools are made in-house, thus always behind what's done elsewhere in the industry. - Very rigid tools & pipeline, you sometimes have to wait for months before the feature that was added by the programmer can be rolled out to the teams. - Managers & producers seems to mostly be completely inefficient. It seems that lots of subject are completely forgotten and nobody follows them, which result in people suddenly realizing that a whole team needs several weeks of work, for an international event that is happening the next day, as if nobody planned that this date would eventually happen. - Lots of changes and wasted work as everything is dictated by how the boss likes or not what is being put in the game. Can result in a lot of frustration and months or work thrown out entirely, pushing multiple people to quit out of anger. - Very french talking company, very french mindset. A bit of multiculturalism wouldn't hurt and would make the company more diverse. If you can't speak french, you basically can't work there. - Difficulty to see where the project is heading because of very silo-like team compartmentalization. - Although it's quite a big company, nothing is made to get people together and get to know the rest of the company. If you're in a small team, you might never speak to anybody else for months sometimes. - Communication between teams is very often lacking. - You don't have any creative decision power whatsoever in this company, even as a lead or expert. The boss micromanages a lot of creative decisions, and decides mostly everything in the end, as it's his company, his money, and his story. - Very hard to make things move, as lots people have been there for a while and "that how we've been doing things since forever", even if as a newcomer you can instantly see the gigantic flaws and you point at them loudly. - The people taking creative decisions are very emotion driven decision-making person,s when it comes to creative decisions. If they like or want something, they won't change their mind even when expert in their fields show them what their experience would dictate them. If they doesn't want something, it's going to be very tough to convince them that it's worth it.
