To be completely honest... - Anonymous employee Voltage Employee Review

-Good team! Lots of fun, hard-working, diverse, skillful nerdy folk. -Lots of learning opportunities. It's a great place to learn about storytelling, production, art, and general game/app development. You get out what you put in! -You know exactly how your work is supporting your team and impacting the audience. -Great benefits. -Fun company activities: bowling, picnics, small parties, games, etc. -Lots of company-level transparency. The leadership team is very open during meetings about the company's progress. -Trust and flexibility. Management will treat you like an adult as long as you take care of your work. Good communication skills go a really long way in addressing snags or proposing new ideas.

-Crunch time! Every game company has it, and at least Voltage is on the low end. There are ongoing efforts to reduce it but that's not easy to do. -Fast-paced content delivery. You have to hit the ground running and keep producing consistently. But, the teams are supportive since everyone's in the same boat. -Voltage is a small company. If you have decent interpersonal skills, then that's not a problem. Everyone's great, but you have to tune up your soft business skills sometimes. As a 2019 hire, I can't comment on anything that happened in prior years. But, I can say that a lot of the very negative GD reviews don't reflect the current state of things. No company is perfect and Voltage has its share of kinks and issues, but by in large it's a great place to work.

There are some great people who are very intelligent and great to work with. You can also really hear their enthusiasm and desire to make a successful product. There's more than I expected personal vacation, but very few company holidays.

It is evident that there was very little to no preparation done prior to the opening of this office as well as the industry and technology here in the U.S. There’s also a plethora of disorganized and inefficient practices from the HQ office being imported that do not translate well, on top of an apparent unwillingness to listen to the experienced and knowledgeable locally hired staff. Some kind of middle ground needs to be met. All of this is complicated by a lack of communication and information sharing both internally and between the San Francisco office and the Japan HQ office. Additionally there is a real lack in experienced HR support to properly handle challenges that arise and support employee as necessary. There is a general mistrust throughout the office, and HR has not shown an ability to take an unbiased stance, instead they can be defensive and/or accusatory.