Fun company, unclear future. - Anonymous employee Survios Employee Review

4.0
Sep 6, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benifits: health, dental, and others. Catered lunches. Snacks. Massages.

Cons

NO AIR CONDITIONING!!! The studio was large but cramped and extremely hot. Too many dogs, stepping in dog poop got old fast. Politics!! Getting anything done requires enduring endless politics. Some employees were underqualified but stayed on because of political reasons and connections to founders. One refused to show up to work for weeks. Another deleted an entire Google drive and was never penalized.

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Survios Response
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Hello! Thank you for reviewing the company. Your constructive feedback is greatly appreciated and critically important as we continue to build forward into the future. Our goal at Survios is always to put employees first and foster a fun, innovative, safe, and collaborative environment, while we are building the most immersive, high-quality content out there in the VR market. RE: Air Conditioning, that has now been resolved. You spoke, we listened! The building is now fully air-conditioned. RE: Dogs. We have enacted stricter policies for dog owners to limit the distractions to the office which include no dogs in the office on Wednesdays, restricted play times, a doggie restroom area, and more accountability for pet owners. Thus in turn still allowing the dog owners to enjoy the perk of having their loved ones around and at the same time respecting others in the office that are not dog owners. RE: Politics and Upper Management. This is something that we have worked hard on and iterated on over the past year. The studio has focused on being more transparent and having an open door policy with upper management as well as being able to address your concerns in monthly town halls. Seth (CEO) & Max (COO) have been extremely visible and involved with the company. Would love to hear your ideas on how we could do this better. There is always room for improvement!

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