Good for internship and fresh graduates for a few years. Waste of your time and efforts if you are experienced - Gameplay Programmer TaleWorlds Employee Review

2.0
Jun 30, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• Mount n Blade franchise if you like PC gaming and history like me • Expensive ergonomic comfy chairs • Some nice colleagues to work with

Cons

• Extremely terrible management that exploits goodwill and lack of experience of the employees. If you are the quiet and silent type, say goodbye to your basic employee rights; if you struggle, you only get some of it, like me. They didn't pay my salary for months (they paid years later, without the interest, note that Turkey has high inflation with annual rate of %10-%30); they didn't pay for my state healthcare for months (because of this I still have debt to the state); they made a false promise of salary raise; they claimed that I signed some imaginary papers; they defied labor law when I showed the article against their actions etc.; this list goes on and on. In the end, they gave my severance pay (of which they weren't obliged to since I quit) but it couldn't even cover half of what they owe me. And its not just one or two man problem; managers, hr, leads they are all the same. The worst part is no one apologizes for their faults or feels any shame or guilt on it, and you know it will repeat over and over again. • Employees are considered as expendable since there are lots of gamedev wannabes. For example when Warband released on consoles, physical copies were given to the guests of the managers, but not to the employees • Experience or technical knowledge has no value. Your opinions as an expert are mostly ignored • Crunch culture is becoming more common with worse conditions each passing year • Very restrictive for a company which is supposed to be creative. Restrictions on the internet, restrictions on work hours, restrictions on personal projects etc. • Bad project management (anyone can guess that since Bannerlord is under development for eight years). Your tasks can be reassigned to someone else without anyone telling you or your months of work can be canceled after a ten-second demo • Salary is below average (at least for engineers). Royalty distributions are based on your relationship with the management, instead of how much time and effort you spent

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Cons

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