Pros
I've worked at Sumdog as a Unity Developer for almost 3.5 years
- The coworkers were really nice. Competent and friendly.
- The company was open to hiring remote workers overseas. The entire duration of the contract I've worked remotely outside of UK.
- A lot of vacation days (26 work days of vacation + Christmas break)
- There were several opportunities to come to Edinburgh. Beautiful city.
- Working on something useful can be very fulfilling and motivating. Compared to F2P games and casino-like apps, this was definitely a better option.
- Overall, the work process was managed really well. We were working in a small team that had Unity devs, PM, QA and a web dev. Jira was used for task tracking. It was always clear what needed to be done.
- The compensation was good. I got a raise once after getting an offer from a different company. After a very awkward conversation with the CEO, got a counter-offer and decided to keep working at Sumdog at the time.
Cons
- The tech in the Unity project is not cutting edge newest stuff, so if you want to stay up-to-date with the most recent Unity-related tech, you'd have to learn it yourself in your free time.
- The infrastructure around the Unity project seemed complex sometimes and there was a learning curve to learn all the systems
- For a Unity developer at Sumdog, the growth opportunities are somewhat limited. You can become a valuable part of the company and make a significant contribution into the Unity part of the app, but you cannot become a lead of a team of Unity developers, for example, because of the size of the company.
