Not recommend for long-term work - Anonymous employee SCS Software Employee Review

1.0
Apr 11, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good for starting position in game industry - Friendly colleagues - Work-Life balance

Cons

- Extremely low salaries with slow and untransparent grow - Targeting on unskilled workers instead of talents (advantage for newbies, disadvantage for seniors) - Little career growth - No effort to keep or evaluate senior colleagues - Bribing with less important benefits instead of better salaries - Specific technologies (custom engine and pipelines) with limited use in game industry - Business built on two games, it is easy to stereotype

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1.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good games, skilled developers, cool offices, passionate CEO.

Cons

The studio grew but didn't change its mindset. The CEO doesn't seem to enjoy running the studio much so he lets the incompetent, unchecked, micromanaging CFO run it into the ground. It's a slow process, because the games sell well. Which makes SCS similar to Titanic. You can hear music in the first class plays, officers insist on the course, the whole thing seems unsinkable, but the cold dark water level rises steadily.

1.0
Apr 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I might be able to name a few positives about SCS, but unfortunately the negatives outweigh them all.

Cons

Team leaders think they’re the best in the world, but outside this company they would be completely useless in the real game industry. The CEO, unfortunately, fails to recognize incompetence even when it’s staring him right in the face. From what I’ve also heard from people around me, skilled and talented individuals are overlooked and given no opportunities, while problematic and lazy employees are tolerated and kept on. The biggest issue in the entire company is safe production.

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